Dear Friends:
Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane....... it's a plane dumping fuel!
Flight 89 was meant to fly from LAX to Shanghai, China, but reported an engine problem shortly after take-off and decided to come back.
Pilots are only supposed to dump fuel over unpopulated areas, or high enough up that it evaporates before getting to the ground. The FAA is investigating why this didn't happen.
Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane....... it's a plane dumping fuel!
Flight 89 was meant to fly from LAX to Shanghai, China, but reported an engine problem shortly after take-off and decided to come back.
A Delta pilot who dumped jet fuel over elementary school kids in Los Angeles on Tuesday told air traffic control moments beforehand that he wasn't going to do it.
Radio transcripts of exchanges between Delta Air Lines flight 89 and controllers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) show the pilot being asked if he needed to dump fuel, to which he replied "negative."
In fact, the plane did dump fuel, which ended up dousing at least 67 people, including dozens of children, with fuel from the plane. Those affected reported skin irritation and breathing problems, but none so serious as to require hospital treatment.
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