PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - "Land at the nearest suitable airport"

25th Sep 2010, 18:01

#51 (permalink)

Sky Kid

Join Date: May 2008

Location: Portland, OR, USA

Posts: 6

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Fuel Dumping???

Several have mentioned over weight for landing, but is it possible that they needed time to dump fuel down to max landing weight? And while they were dumping fuel maybe they figured the longer runway was the better choice.

Reply