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Originally Posted by Madmartagen

lol how they circled LA for a couple of hours, why didnt they just fly towards theri destination so the passengers could just board another flight to wherever they were going? theyre gonna land somewhere, why waste fuel over your departure airport?? stupid:

Maybe if the landing gear is stuck, they can't get the same fuel economy and wouldn't make it? Don't know. I was on a 4 engine 747 going from Anchorage, AK to Japan and about half-way through the flight, one of the engines malfunctioned and was shut down. For some reason, they decided to turn around and go back to AK with 3 engines rather than continuing on. It was pretty funny to watch the people who were dozing not realize that we were landing in Alaska after a 7 hour flight. happy: