With rising aviation fuel costs and an increased global focus on the sustainability and environmental impact of the aviation industry, purposefully dumping fuel from an aircraft can seem like an ...

It isn't an easy feat designing a safe commercial airliner that can weigh almost 153,000 pounds to land on a runway without damaging itself. Planes are also allowed to be heavier at takeoff than their ...

Air travel is so ubiquitous at this point in history that many people don't really think about everything that goes into it. However, if you're curious about flight, you may have wondered about things ...

The act of an aircraft dumping fuel mid-flight, also known as fuel jettisoning, is not a routine procedure but is undertaken in specific situations when safety and operational considerations require ...

A British Columbia-based helicopter company was fined for improperly removing aviation fuel and transmission fluid from Saskatchewan Glacier in Banff National Park in 2023.

Delta Air Lines agreed to pay $78.75 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a 2020 fuel dump that doused tens of thousands of properties, including homes and schools, in Los Angeles and Orange ...

An Alaska Airlines flight packed with hundreds of passengers was forced to dump fuel over the Atlantic and turn back to Rome ...