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United Airlines grounded a flight after passengers witness jet fuel gushing from the wing
Clearer video of the #united #gasleak. How not one crew member saw this is beyond me. Thank god we were lookin out the window at take off. United Airlines was forced to cancel a Venice, Italy-bound flight after the plane suffered a massive fuel leak while waiting to take off at Newark Liberty International Airport. Video captured by a passenger on board the Boeing 767-300 shows fuel gushing from its left wing. (finance.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Looks to be coming from overfill (pressure relief) vent located on the underside of the wing...that's why no crew member saw it, can't be seen from the cockpit, however...what caused the overpressure is something to be looked at.
It coming from the dump valve. The overfill vents are located further outboard and in the middle of the wing.
I checked the dump valve this morning Ops check good.
The leak is the valve to discharge fuel at a premature landing. Mayby a rubber seal that is broken. Rarely occurs.
Now, United has gone the right way to pick up their passengers in a hotel and to book over for later flights. After the incident with Dr. David Dao has taught United something.
Now, United has gone the right way to pick up their passengers in a hotel and to book over for later flights. After the incident with Dr. David Dao has taught United something.
Except for the fact that ground personnel treated the couple who first reported the incident like crap. They claim they received no hotel.
Hard to tell if it's the fuel dump or the wing tank vent/overflow. They are both in the same area. The vent/overflow is under the wing, the dump nozzle sticks out of the trailing edge. If the right wing was at full taking a hard turn while taxing can cause the wing tank fuel to surge out the vent/overflow. And yes the right tank vents out the left and vice versa.
Actually, that's only true for the DC-9/MD-80 series of airplanes. All Boeing prodcuts (sans the 717) are direct vent (same wing as tank) and is more traditional method of overflow. Fuelers are specifically trained on this for the DC-9/MD-80 series becuase it is non-standard.
Chris Trott - Thanks but I think that we are both a little wrong. I could find the fuel vent diagram for the 767-300. I did find a 777 diagram. I THINK that the 727, 73 and 76 vent systemas are similar. The 777 actually does both. They vent from the inner tank across to the other surge tank and the outer portion vents into that respective side surge tank. I THINK that the vent line is tied into the fueling manifold. I believe that it was designed that way and severed to cover both over fueling and a surge due to aircraft attitude change. Thanks for keeping me straight.
Sorry cannot upload a picture here. Without getting the fish tape reader out this is the only thing I could find on the dc9/md80 in the stuff I have from my old work. It is in my pictures