An ATC recording of the incident is here: https://youtu.be/mIA90evz8gs https://youtu.be/mIA90evz8gs The issue was a compressor stall on one of the engines. No

An ATC recording of the incident is here: https://youtu.be/mIA90evz8gs https://youtu.be/mIA90evz8gs The issue was a compressor stall on one of the engines. Not critical, by the pilot's own admission. ATC offered a hold over the water to dump fuel, which would have been a normal thing to do. Fuel dumping is normally coordinated by ATC. It was declined as unnecessary. Then, suddenly, they are dumping at low altitude over a city (which is to be avoided if at all possible). Now, I don't know for sure what happened in the final minutes. Dumping fuel is certainly better than crashing, but it is hard to understand how the crew got into that situation given what happened earlier. There are still questions to be answered.