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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: 0, Troll) by bradley13 on Thursday January 16 2020, @07:31PM (16 children)
"This incident likely to cause cancer in the State of California."
Everything causes cancer in California. California is cancer, or at least the politics are. Currently metastasizing to Colorado and Texas, other areas may also be in danger.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday January 16 2020, @09:15PM (15 children)
You're aware that Californians are not your enemy aren't you?
Neither are any Americans who might vote Democrat, despite what Fox News tells you.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @10:06PM (3 children)
I used to believe that democrats were just foolish, uneducated, and immature. Childish ideas (no violence if we take away weapons, no poverty if we do welfare, etc.) come from that.
After the 2012 election, I started to realize that democrats hate America. They hate the values and the people.
After the 2016 election, it couldn't be denied. Democrats are traitors who eagerly seek to destroy us from within. The only excuse to not love Trump was doubt about campaign promises, but that wasn't the reason democrats gave for their hate.
Bernie's top-level campaign staff in Ohio was just caught on video threatening violence and desiring to put conservatives in prison camps. This shit is real.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday January 16 2020, @10:24PM
Oh. I am sorry to hear you feel that way.
Things are going to get ugly for everyone when you guys start shooting each other again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @03:36AM
No, that supposed Bernie dude only said they would burn their own homes (the cities) for some reason.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday January 17 2020, @03:20PM
You've got it all wrong. We're just collaborating with space aliens, we have a shared interest in molesting good Christian conservatives. The aliens give us their anal probing equipment and in return we give them recordings of our defilings so they can whack their gack to it.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 17 2020, @12:30AM (9 children)
Them's fightin' words, you un-American troll. /s
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday January 17 2020, @12:42AM (8 children)
That is what worries me. An American Civil II - Electric Boogaloo will be bad for the whole planet, and based on the comment above, it is going to happen at some point.
I wonder what Republicans will invent to demonise Bernie if he becomes your next president?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @01:19AM
We're going to skip Civil War II and go directly to Civil War III concurrent with World War III.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 17 2020, @02:49AM (2 children)
The problem is: what would that even look like? It was bad enough the first go around when there were just a few Southern sympathizers in the North, and a few more Northern sympathizers in the South and all the border states where brother went off to fight against brother, literally.
Today it would be cities vs. rural, but with even more mix in the mix, I don't think you could define a literal front line anywhere. I suppose it could come to a shooting war if the direction from the top was to start shooting and only half of the command structure followed those orders.
Honestly, I think we were much closer to Civil War in 1970 with thing like Kent State going down than we are today.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @03:38AM
It is FAKE NEWS! Start recognizing it. There is no reason for any civil war, only for arresting the global child traffickers who have infested the government. If you want to go to war to defend them... well that is your decision.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @11:24AM
We need to start shooting and get the hate out of everybody's systems.
The simmering antagonism between the left and the right is only going to be solved one of two ways at this point: Secession and a division of the country into a 'left' and a 'right', an agreement to segregate politics on a county by county basis with interstates considered neutral territory and bordered to keep each sides undesireables out of drive-through country, or a proper and blood civil war that will most likely end when a third party annexes us, whether China, Russia, or a combination of Canada and Mexico (although both would be better scouring the land clean and recolonizing.)
As to the Native Americans, the ones on the rez might make it if the supremacists don't come for them en-masse to take their land and rape their women (not that they haven't been, but this would make a perfect time to drop all pretense while eyes were focused elsewhere.)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 17 2020, @08:44AM (3 children)
Maybe we should base our judgments on something more substantial than the attitude of a post? But having said that, if a Civil War 2.0 does start, my take is crazy California will be involved. It's a big state, but they're circling the drain just the same. There's so many different ways they're destroying their own future - underfunded public pensions, idiotic regulation, complete inability to follow a budget, huge prison industry, emptying aquifers, etc. Something will get them.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday January 17 2020, @09:01AM (2 children)
You should go and have a look at California some day. Parts of it are really nice, and lots of the people are fantastic.
Some of the friendliest people I have met live there.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 17 2020, @08:00PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:20AM
Great. You're aware then that the people of California are not your enemy then.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday January 17 2020, @05:25PM
He might really regard them as the enemy. It wouldn't be the first time [wikipedia.org], and they are technically in rebellion over a labor issue that is largely associated with agriculture just like the last time, and a drug issue which is unprecedented. Some think this PoV is hyperbole, but we may look back on the immigration and pot issues as part of the defining characteristics of a republic that was falling apart--assuming it keeps going that way.
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