By Dan Whitcomb
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES, Jan 14 (Reuters) – A Delta Airways jet making an emergency touchdown at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport dumped gasoline on the playground of an elementary faculty within the flight path on Tuesday, inflicting minor accidents on 17 youngsters and 9 adults, native and federal authorities mentioned.
All the accidents at Park Avenue Elementary Faculty in suburban Cudahy had been mentioned to be minor and not one of the victims wanted hospitalization, the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division mentioned on Twitter.
“Delta Air Traces Flight 89 declared an emergency after departing from LAX, returned to the airport and landed with out incident,” mentioned Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
“The FAA is totally investigating the circumstances behind this incident. There are particular fuel-dumping procedures for plane working into and out of any main U.S. airport,” the company mentioned. “These procedures name for gasoline to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, sometimes at increased altitudes so the gasoline atomizes and disperses…