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Old May 18, 2013 | 5:56 pm
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Better than tossing 9,000lb of pax and bags, I suppose!

In all seriousness, the fuel trucks are on schedules too. When UA decided to swap the a/c, for whatever reason, they likely contacted the vendor to get a truck out to offload fuel. 9k lbs is roughly ~1300gal, so it probably took some time to get an empty tanker out to the airplane.
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