BBC News - Plane dumps fuel over schools near Los Angeles airport
Plane dumps fuel over Los Angeles schools
Very odd story. If the the flight path diagram in the story is correct, the decision to dump fuel was made just minutes before touch down, and at a relatively low altitude. The flight was going to Shanghai, so they knew they had a problem before turning back to the mainland. Looks like they got maybe twenty miles out to sea, would have made more sense to dump fuel out there. Will be interesting to see if the FAA determines if the crew made an error in judgement or just got boxed in and had to make the best of a bad, and maybe getting worse, situation.
Plane dumps fuel over Los Angeles schools
Very odd story. If the the flight path diagram in the story is correct, the decision to dump fuel was made just minutes before touch down, and at a relatively low altitude. The flight was going to Shanghai, so they knew they had a problem before turning back to the mainland. Looks like they got maybe twenty miles out to sea, would have made more sense to dump fuel out there. Will be interesting to see if the FAA determines if the crew made an error in judgement or just got boxed in and had to make the best of a bad, and maybe getting worse, situation.
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