Airplane is Unable to Slow Down / Cathay Pacific Flight 780
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The Super Absorbent Polimer in Fuel Trucks
Super absorbent polimer materials are used in filter monitors installed in fuel dispensers. This kind of polimer is used in the filters in the fuel trucks that fuel the planes so that they absorb all the water. If there's any water in the fuel, this polimer is supposed to absorb it. However, for some reason now they're finding this polemer that should be in the filter in the fuel truck, it's in the fuel tank and in the engine components of this plane. It just like, leaked out into the fuel and then got just jammed up everything with little balls. Yet, that actly it like. Even if you think about a car, no, use a
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