SEATTLE -- The Washington Ecology Department may fine Asiana Airlines for a plane's dumping fuel over Puget Sound before an emergency landing at Sea-Tac Airport.
Spokesman Curt Hart in Olympia said some of the jet fuel reached the water last Wednesday. A sheen was spotted between Vashon and Bainbridge islands.
Hart said the state action will depend on the investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board. He says the state does not want to discourage necessary emergency actions. Fuel usually evaporates in the air.
The Boeing 777 with 192 people on board landed safely. Sea-Tac spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt says preliminary indications are a compressor stall caused the engine problem.
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