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We once had engine failure at MTOW in a large military aircraft at a base in Norfolk which required a “heavyweight circuit” and visual approach on half the engines.
As practised in the sim, we dumped fuel down to MLW from 1,500 feet on the downwind.
It was a Monday morning, which in those days was washing day - sheets hung out to dry etc. and it didn’t take long for the calls to the police station. Mates driving in to work stopped smoking I was told.
Landing went OK in a crosswind. RAF put a small piece in the Anglian Times to explain the case and there it ended.
Bit different today...
Not so much time as location methinks - population density in rural Norfolk would be lower than in Los Angeles, albeit that they might have more fingers per head of population