No one suggested that the plane had dumped too much fuel and run out.
The pilots finished dumping fuel over the bay by 23:27 then they received a report of smoke in the cabin.
After dumping fuel, the aircraft returned to the airport.
The pilot at one point asks if the crew can dump fuel "in this area during descent."
Brooks knew that by dumping fuel they could produce a vapour trail.
He was accelerating too, dumping fuel into his exhaust in exchange for speed.
The aircraft dumped fuel and returned to the airport for a safe landing.
A mechanism was provided for dumping fuel directly from the tanks in an emergency.
Decision time: land and risk going off the end of the runway, or circle around dumping fuel before the bomb goes off?
The crew dumped fuel and returned to the airport.