[Scan-DC] United 950 dumping fuel

[David Jones]

They dump fuel, they don't burn off the fuel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charley Armstrong <armstrong.c at verizon.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:38 PM
To: SCANDC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>; freqhopping <freqhopping at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] United 950 dumping fuel

Yea, ATC was just talking about UAL950 dumping fuel at 10K with another aircraft.

CA

On May 8, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Charley Armstrong wrote:

> They were loaded to fly to Brussels - that would equate to 5 more hours airborne to burn that much fuel...
> 
> CA
> Annapolis
> 
> On May 8, 2010, at 7:11 PM, freqhopping wrote:
> 
>> Looks more like they're burning off the fuel. 
>> http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL950
>> The registration of this one is N652UA.
>> 
>> Travis
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Subject: [Scan-DC] United 950 dumping fuel
>> 
>> 
>>> Heading back to Dulles. Some type of emergency. Was on 129.45. Pilot
>>> is now off, running checklists.
>>> 
>> 
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