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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by Onavo on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:31AM (#44257592)
Sure, if you don't want your wings anymore. The wings are the primary fuel tanks. You can drain the fuel out during flight but the process can take hours.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by madaxe_again on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:29PM (#44263398)
Ah, the old “Wings Stay On/Wings Fall Off” button.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by Onavo on Friday June 13, 2025 @06:11AM (#44267193)
There is a fuel drain button, it's just slow. Google "fuel jettison". Sometimes you have to make an emergency descent and the plane is too heavy (or too dangerous to carry so much fuel). From the ground it would look like "chemtrails". You can look up videos of this on YouTube.
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