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March 9, 2013 @ 10:21 am
NEW YORK (AP) - A Dutch airliner is flying from New York to Amsterdam on a fuel mix that includes leftover oil from frying Louisiana's Cajun food.
The KLM flights from Kennedy Airport are powered by a combination of 25 percent recycled cooking oil and 75 percent jet fuel.
After the first such flight Friday, the concept will be tested on 24 round-trip trans-Atlantic trips every Thursday for the next six months.
KLM executive Camiel Eurlings jokingly told the New York Post ( http://bit.ly/13LZ2ec) that "it smelled like fries" while the plane was being fueled.
The waste oil from frying up crawfish, cracklins and other Cajun specialties is refined at a Louisiana plant, then trucked to JFK.
KLM says the cooking oil reduces polluting carbon emissions up to 80 percent.
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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com
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