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Biggest Passenger Plane Loses Engine

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The Captain's Guide to Landing on a Zero Center Runway

The flight crew advise air traffic control that fuel was leaking from the aircraft and they would need emergency services to meet them. So it took about 50 minutes for the crew to work through the procedures that they needed to in order to start making preparations to land. After they're doing some calculations, they determined that a landing on runway two zero center would be doable. It's weird to think like, oh, we need to go in and land faster. But I guess it makes sense because otherwise you would just fall.

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