Originally published Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 7:08 AM
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Jet fuel spills at Sea-Tac Airport
About 1,000 gallons of jet fuel spilled from a plane at Sea-Tac Airport when a fuel line ruptured during maintenance.
About 1,000 gallons of jet fuel spilled from a plane at Sea-Tac Airport when a fuel line ruptured during maintenance.
Airport spokesman Perry Cooper says mechanics were working on a Hawaiian Airlines 757 at Gate B-5 when they had a problem about 2 a.m. today with a valve on the left wing.
The two mechanics were checked by Port of Seattle fire department medics and were unharmed.
Cooper says firefighters used hoses to flush the fuel into the airport's drainage system that goes through filtering and treatment ponds.
The spill was cleaned up in about an hour. There were no delays in airport operations.
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