Delta faces two lawsuits over L.A. fuel dumping incident
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Teachers with the Los Angeles school district sued the airline last month, alleging that three elementary school teachers were doused with jet fuel on their clothes, arms and face during the incident.The students are suing Delta in part to remind airlines that "safety is not just for people on the plane," Matthew McNicholas, a Los Angeles lawyer representing the students, told CBS MoneyWatch. The FAA is investigating still the incident.McNicholas and other lawyers representing the students argue that Delta employees didn't control the plane in a way that avoided harm to people on the ground, failed to dump the jet fuel at a safe altitude and didn't tell air traffic control personnel they needed to dump fuel to lighten the weight of the plane.
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