Originally Posted by
flyinbob
So why the circling over the desert? I assumed it was because of dumping. Otherwise, if it is mechanical, why not come straight in?
757's don't have the ability to dump fuel. If they had gone out close to maximum weight then it's possible that they would have had to burn a little fuel before landing, but over 2 hours of flying just to get below max landing weight is a lot on a 757
Originally Posted by
GadgetFreak
It did? Flight aware showed it going to about 1000 feet and then back to 15000 feet.
... within 2 minutes. That's one hell of a rate of climb
It definitely landed when I said - I was listing to LAX ATC at the time and they were taxiing.