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At least 60 people, many of them children, were treated for skin irritation and breathing problems.
Fuel may be dumped in emergency landings, but only over designated areas and at a high altitude, aviation rules stipulate.
The Delta Airlines flight returned to the airport due to an engine issue.
Delta confirmed in a statement that the passenger plane had released fuel to reduce its landing weight.
The children and adults treated following the dumping incident were connected with at least six local schools. All the injuries are said to be minor.
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Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told Reuters news agency: "The FAA is thoroughly investigating the circumstances behind this incident. There are special fuel-dumping procedures for aircraft operating into and out of any major US airport."These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomises and disperses before it reaches the ground."
Business Traveler has other details
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 777-200 bound for Shanghai Pudong that was making an emergency landing dumped fuel on six schools in Los Angeles, mildly injuring 60 adults and children, according to media reports.
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The students and staff members complained of minor skin irritation and breathing problems, but all declined transportation to hospitals, the newspaper added.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that the plane flew north over Malibu within four minutes after takeoff at 11:32am (local time). After encountering an engine problem, the journey back to the airport, in which the airline said it dumped fuel over urban southeastern Los Angeles County, took a looping route over the San Fernando Valley. The flight, which never flew higher than 8,000 feet, then moved over Griffith Park not long after, heading into southeastern LA County. Minutes later, the flight began making its return to LAX, looping back west.Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 posted an image on Twitter of the plane's flight path:
Flight path of flight #DL89 that returned to Los Angeles International Airport 24 minutes after departurehttps://t.co/JPER0N19p6 pic.twitter.com/XwJalaZfZq
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 14, 2020...
Several videos of the plane dumping fuel have emerged on social media, such as the one below: [linky]
(Score: 5, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday January 16 2020, @03:27PM (22 children)
they are hundreds of miles apart! they are not sub's of each other.
wtf?
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 5, Informative) by maxwell demon on Thursday January 16 2020, @03:49PM
Both linked articles say Los Angeles, and none even mentions San Francisco. Business Traveller specifically mentions San Fernando Valley (besides some other places), maybe that's what c0lo misread as San Francisco.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Funny) by ElizabethGreene on Thursday January 16 2020, @03:50PM (19 children)
For those of us outside of California those are the only two cities in the state. It's easy to mix them up.
It's similar for my home state, Tennessee. Only one city, Nashville, from end to end. Also, we hand out guitars, cowboy boots, and country music recording contracts as you get off the plane.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @04:19PM (1 child)
Memphis. Elvis mumble mumble
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 16 2020, @07:16PM
Carl Perkins
(If anyone actually gets that reference I'll be amazed!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @05:04PM (3 children)
So I am from New York, according to the rest of the country the entire state IS the City.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday January 16 2020, @07:27PM (2 children)
If Google is to be believed, 44% of the population of the state lives in the city, so it's a fairly safe assumption.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday January 17 2020, @08:42AM (1 child)
Which means that the majority (56%) does not live in the city. I wouldn't call an assumption that is more likely to be false than to be true a fairly safe assumption.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:37PM
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday January 16 2020, @05:10PM (1 child)
I mean, if I make the assumption that that's where you live, I've got a 33% chance of being right.
Better that than the literal pavement hellscape that is dollywood, coming down from the mountains.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday January 16 2020, @09:08PM
If our governor and Senator Wiener have their way, most of the state will look like that as soon as possible, and according to them only evil selfish NIMBYs are against it.
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday January 16 2020, @05:11PM (1 child)
> Also, we hand out guitars, cowboy boots, and country music recording contracts as you get off the plane.
Ah, that explains "Blind Man's Penis".
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday January 17 2020, @01:07AM
#YoureIt
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 16 2020, @07:58PM (7 children)
Oh, c'mon, there's Knoxville and Memphis too... Now, I guess I'm a ringer 'cause all four of my grandparents grew up outside Knoxville, and I actually lived with my parents (age 1-2) while dad was getting a MS at UT, but, c'mon - where do they think Memphis is if it's not in Tennessee?
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Magic Oddball on Thursday January 16 2020, @09:12PM (6 children)
Egypt [wikipedia.org]?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 16 2020, @11:44PM (5 children)
That's where you'll find Elvis - in the Pyramid!
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Friday January 17 2020, @12:04AM
$ ping elvis
elvis is alive
there. enough proof for ya?
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @12:29AM (2 children)
The Pyramids were built by aliens.
Ask Elvis. He knows. He's got the hookup.
You can catch him at the King's Domain Bars and Grill. Once in a while, he also makes a special appearance at B^4 aka "Big Bang Burger Bar."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @03:12AM (1 child)
The pyramids and many other monolithic structures around the world were build with limestone concrete. Ie, it was poured into casts.
90% of ancient aliens stuff goes away when you accept that.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday January 17 2020, @08:46AM
So you're saying the aliens only built 10% of the stuff they are claimed to have built? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @11:14AM
Unless that Mummy's Mummy dragged his corpse back there after the events unfolded in the documentary 'Bubba-Ho-Tep'
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday January 16 2020, @09:49PM
And it's all highland, right? . [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 16 2020, @03:52PM
It's the "new" trick. People will notice your story and click on the article if they suspect something is wrong.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..