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Old Mar 10, 2002 | 4:43 pm
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Andrew Yiu
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ijkh:
It was my first and hopefully only experience of watching fuel being dumped prior to landing in HNL. The FAs said that was standard proceedure to dump fuel prior to landing. I was not so sure. What do FTers think?</font>
It's standard for an aircraft to dump fuel first if they have to make an emergency landing. It reduces the weight of the aircraft down to a safe level for landing.

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