{"id":276380,"date":"2025-09-01T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-delta-air-lines-pay-79-million-fuel-dump\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:00:17","slug":"why-does-delta-air-lines-have-to-pay-79-million-for-a-boeing-777-flight-incident-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276380","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Delta Air Lines Have To Pay $79 Million For A Boeing 777 Flight Incident 5 Years Ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> will pay close to $79 million, in a bid to settle a class action lawsuit, following a 2020 fuel dump that rained down on businesses and residential areas in Los Angeles, following a flight losing engine thrust shortly after take-off from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256619\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/los-angeles-international-airport\/\"  >Los Angeles International Airport<\/a><\/span>. Due to the dump, Los Angeles County firefighters were called to Cudahy, describing the feeling of jet fuel on their clothes, skin, and eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking $79 million price tag for a single flight&#8217;s mistake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,737,565,17953,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-777","category-delta-air-lines","category-image","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276381,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276380\/revisions\/276381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}