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Maybe burning fuel to reduce the chance of explosion during the emergency landing? That's quite common.
by sleavey 8y ago
Maybe burning fuel to reduce the chance of explosion during the emergency landing? That's quite common.
- mattzito 8y agoBoeing planes can dump fuel, iirc.
- btgeekboy 8y agoThe 737 (subject of this article) cannot.
- amelius 8y agoThat's quite a design-flaw then.
- mulmen 8y agoCare to provide your credentials to make such a claim? Especially around one of the most widely used and longest produced airliners in human history.
- davidw 8y agohttps://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20630 https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20630
- drharby 8y agoSorry boeing engineers didnt have you at the table when they were choosing features to optimize for, you know, toggling through priorities and costs of features in terms of thrust, drag, weight, power, etc.
- icebraining 8y agoThe Airbus A320 can't either. It's not required as long as the landing system is designed to handle the fully-loaded weight.
- mrpippy 8y agoCorrect. Even on the much bigger A330 wide body, fuel dump is only an option: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1351703 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1351703
- hinkley 8y agoHuh. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9393/why-doesnt-the-737-have-a-fuel-dump-nozzle https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9393/why-doesnt... The rules are based on the fact that landing is harder on the airframe than taking off, so as long as max takeoff weight is only a fraction higher than max landing weight you get a pass. And at any rate you get the greater of 10 minutes or 1% of max takeoff weight per minute to dump enough fuel to land safely. I wonder how long it takes a 737 to circle the runway before it's safe?
- selectodude 8y ago20 percent of fuel is used from take off to cruise altitude. On a plane like a 777, that still leaves a very substantial amount of fuel onboard. However on a smaller plane like a 737, you don't have to circle for too long before you're below MLW.
- rconti 8y agoNo, from the description, they clearly ignored reports that they "may have hit something", they said "nah, we good." It'll be interesting to see, when the passenger reports start coming in, whether it's plausible the pilots just didn't feel it.
- gumby 8y agoUsually they can dump it