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Old 1st August 2002 | 16:09
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When a plane needs to dump fuel, ATC assigns it a certain fuel dumping area and altitude to do so. This ensures that no other traffic gets into the fuel spray and that the fuel evaporates before it's had the chance to even come close to the ground.

Just imagine the boiling point of kerosine at, say, 500hPa
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