Radio call to LAX tower raises questions about jet fuel dump over school
by Hannah Fry, Colleen Shalby and Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times
Jan 15, 2020
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - A Delta Air Lines pilot was roughly five minutes into a flight from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Shanghai on Tuesday when he radioed to the airport control tower that he was having problems with the right engine on the jetliner.
"We have an emergency at this time," the pilot says calmly, according to a recording obtained at LiveATC.net, a website that streams and archives air traffic control audio. "We need to return to LAX for (an) engine compressor stall."
Less than a minute later, a controller asks whether the pilot needs to return to
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