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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 05:57 PM Jun 2017

This is the ONE thing you don't want to see before cross-Atlantic flight



NEWARK -- United Airlines cancelled a flight out of Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday night after fuel gushed from one of the plane's wings as it taxied to the runway.

A video shot by a passenger shows fuel spilling onto the runway from the edge of the left wing.

Flight 170 was scheduled to depart for Venice, Italy at 6:55 p.m, but was forced to return to the gate.

Passengers were put in a hotel and United will attempt to re-book them on a flight Wednesday, United said in a statement. United described the incident as a "fuel leak," but didn't mention where the leak originated.

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still_one

(91,968 posts)
2. actually, BEFORE is when you want to see it, if it is going to happen, when they can do something
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 05:59 PM
Jun 2017

about it


mn9driver

(4,412 posts)
5. This is a tank vent leak.
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 06:06 PM
Jun 2017

They're not that uncommon and are usually the result of an overfilled tank or a check valve failure. In this case it looks like a check valve failed.

ecstatic

(32,567 posts)
7. So who alerted the pilots? The passenger? A random airport employee? Or is
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 06:24 PM
Jun 2017

there an alert that goes off when that happens?

CaptainTruth

(6,546 posts)
9. I was supposed to fly out of Newark last night for Milan, this explains why ...
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jun 2017

... there were so many people at the United service desk asking if I was trying to get to Venice too. I didn't know this had happened.

I missed my connection to Milan (my first flight was delayed 2 hours due to weather) but I managed to get on a Lufthansa flight to Milan via Munich ... but that plane got a flat tire on the way to the runway & we left Newark 5 hours late. So, I got to spend a few more hours in Munich today waiting for a new connecting flight, & finally got to Milan this evening ... A full 12 hours after I was originally supposed to be here.

Traveling is fun! #Sarcasm

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