Originally Posted by
cactusmike
Not sure why they needed to burn fuel to land underweight. Overweight landings are a non event as long as you don't exceed the vertical speed limits. Most jets that's 300 to 400 fpm. Safest course of action is to get on the ground.
Not disagreeing but what is the max landing weight used for then? If they were pretty full going out might have needed to come down 600 lbs or so to get under that? But yeah, one engine isn't a great experiance especially if you've had a failure in one already (can be a common cause sometimes).