United Airlines flight suffered fuel leak
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Re: United Airlines flight suffered fuel leak
When fuel is dumped is it not pumped out through the wing tip?
Re: United Airlines flight suffered fuel leak
Propnut wrote:When fuel is dumped is it not pumped out through the wing tip?
Proppies, I was going to ask the same thing. That discharge looks like the point where fuel would be dumped from? So maybe a problem with a switch on the ground perhaps.
Re: United Airlines flight suffered fuel leak
Possibly a fuel dump valve opened inadvertently or by some technical problem. Another stronger possibility is the "overflow", actually a surge tank at the wingtip to capture excess fuel, may have had fuel in it.