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Hmm ... isn't landing at over MLW unsafe by definition, at least in the purest sense of the word?

Admittedly there's a lot of gray area to MLW, not least because it's often a design spec, rather than a number calculated from first principles (fuselage and wing flexing etc). And the "max" part does seem to be subject to some negotiation. For example, with enough incentive, aircraft manufacturers have been known to raise their initially declared MGLW a little if needs be....

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That's certainly my concern. Clearly, the description of the system is just cursory in this article, but it does seem that as described it's vulnerable to anyone intentionally disabling the aircraft transponders....