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Article: FUEL DYE COULD GROUND JETLINERS CONTAMINANT BROUGHT BOEING FIELD TO A HALT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 28, 1997
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A contaminant being found in jet fuel has forced one airport to shut down temporarily and may damage aircraft engines, some experts fear.
The contaminant is a red dye that since 1994 has been required by federal tax regulations in some diesel fuel, which passes through the same pipelines that are used for aviation fuel.
The effects of the dye are not clear, but tests indicate that even minute amounts in engines can be heated into a tarlike substance that clogs fuel nozzles in the engines.
The contamination can be almost infinitesimal. Only 11 parts of dye per million parts of diesel fuel - the recipe required by the Internal Revenue Service - ...