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Plane dumps fuel over the Pacific Ocean, an hour into the flight, before returning home to LAX

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Japan Airlines flight JL69, on Sunday afternoon from LA to Osaka. Normal until about an hour or so into our flight, when we noticed the plane shooting liquid fuel out of the wing. A few minutes later we were told over the intercom that there was some minor electrical problem and we had to return to LAX to fix it. The plane was dumping fuel, we were told, in order to land more safely. So we circled over the ocean for a while, finally it stopped, and they announced we’d return. All told, our arrival was delayed 6 hours. The flight crew was super nice, and the whole plane was pretty calm and comfortable throughout. JAL gave us a reasonable reimbursement for the delay. What a long day!

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