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Aviation experts puzzled after airliner dumps fuel over city

by Associated Press
| January 16, 2020 12:05 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some aviation experts said Wednesday that they were puzzled after the crew of a commercial airliner decided to dump fuel at low altitude during an emergency landing, causing a vapor to fall on schoolyards and neighborhoods east of Los Angeles International Airport.

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