What: American Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from San Francisco,CA to Honolulu,HI
Where: San Francisco
When: Dec 6th 2010
Who: 98 passengers
Why: The plane took off successfully but developed a bleed air problem in the left engine. The bleed air issue is more routine than problematic but dealing with it is certainly a best practice; the crew had to burn off fuel to land, and circled; but then diverted to LAX for the maintenance facilities. On arrival to LAX, passengers were booked onto alternative flights.
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