There was a massive fuel spill at Dallas – Fort Worth while gassing up an American regional jet on Saturday. It was the classic ‘let’s unscrew the pressurized thing and see what happens’ approach. Bro didn’t refuel the plane—he refueled the entire ramp.
On the bright side, that ramp’s never looked so clean or so moisturized.
This is how the fuel leak started pic.twitter.com/mGmLwXfWR1
— aircraftmaintenancengineer (@airmainengineer) October 11, 2025
American Eagle jet's refueling turned into a spill nightmare on 11 Oct at DFW International Airport ✈️. pic.twitter.com/gsf0DwtwY2
— Fahad Naim (@Fahadnaimb) October 11, 2025
♂️ pic.twitter.com/ne2ZaOmaaq
— aircraftmaintenancengineer (@airmainengineer) October 11, 2025
(EPA types furiously.) This went so wrong the entire airport might qualify as a wetland now.
This likely flies in the face of “not spending a dollar that we don’t have to”.
he was moving pretty slow for fuel spraying all over everywhere
There it is. That looks expensive. I mean, explosive. Yikes.
Safety first. This is just one more reason that ramp workers should refrain from smoking when refueling an aircraft.
If it’d been Florida Man doing this he would have been smoking while refueling.
This is what happens when you do not have good safety procedures in place.
Remember the old days when there was smoking on the tarmac
@Gary – Recently my comments are getting filtered out. For years they just appeared after I commented. I don’t believe I did anything very untoward. Is there a way to address this?
Yikes. This almost looked like a disgruntled employee who quit on the spot.
@Christian — No worries, not just you. Looks to be a caching issue causing an 5-10 minute delay for comments to be posted.
He just sauntered away as if nothing was happening. Weird.
@Christian — It’s all of us (and has been going on for a few weeks); if you click ‘POST COMMENT’ and it refreshes to the top of the page, it should eventually appear, maybe within a few minutes.
@Easy victor — Less of a ‘saunter’ and more of a ‘sashay’…
@Tim I guess they’re trained not to run, make deliberate moves at a safe speed if something goes wrong. I have no clue though.
@Christian yes, the comments issue is a bit frustrating. I almost thought I was banned from here for some reason until I went back to look at an old pay and lo and behold, all my comments are there.
Hmm. Didn’t these guys just receive a raise? I guess you don’t always get what you pay for.
@Maryland — Apparently, that guy’s check got ‘lost in the mail…’ (some real ‘not my job’-energy.)
@1990. Guess the old ” left-y loose-y, right-y tight-y,” doesn’t work on this valve!
An obvious DEI hire