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Incident: Southwest B737 at Islip on Apr 28th 2016, ground observer saw aircraft leaking
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N960WN performing flight WN-1570 from Islip,NY to Fort Lauderdale,FL (USA), was in the initial climb out of Macarthur Airport's runway 06 when an airport ground staff observed something prompting him to believe the aircraft was leaking fuel from the left hand engine (CFM56). The crew stopped the climb at 3000 feet and returned to Islip (avherald.com) 기타...
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Some AC vent fuel from the engine once airborne something to do with shutdown or startup. That way its not so much of a problem. Was following one out after take off ahead of me and called the tower who relayed the message to the jet and the pilot replied that is what happened.
Remembering the small amount of turbine work I did: They had a dump valve to purge unburned fuel that is leftover after a "no light-off" start attempt, which can be a rather large amount. Don't know how the new models do it but there is one possibility.
