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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 10:52 am
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It happens. True, airlines can't dump fuel at the gate but they can off-load. Happened to me on a UA flight last month. SFO-DEN was mistakenly fueled to fly to EWR. Took them 2 hours for the ground crew to mobilize and siphon off enough so we could land in DEN within weight parameters.
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