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A Boeing plane caught fire after two wheels exploded on the runway on Sunday.
The pilot of Etihad Airways flight EY461 from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi was forced to halt the takeoff on Sunday due to an emergency with the aircraft’s tires.
Firefighters rushed to the plane and sprayed firefighting foam on the landing gear and tires.
A spokesperson for the airline told The Sun that all 300 passengers safely disembarked. more here
The wheels did not explode. The tires blew.
Wheels and tires are not the same thing.
Unless you’re AOC.
watch out, you will get brad whining that a single thrust reverser will spin a plane in circles, like some kind of fucking cartoon.
” Anonymous Monday, 6 January 2025, 16:20 at 4:20 pm”
What name do you usually go by coward?
Maintenance, Maintenance, Maintenance…
Inspection, Inspection, Inspection…
it didn’t say why take off was aborted, assume the tires burst due to brakes applied at high speed
Now that I’ve read a couple of accounts, the remarkable thing to me is that the reason for the aborted takeoff is never mentioned, nor did the articles even hint that it was a reasonable thing to ask about.
@Anon1620, you ignorant slut. One-sided thrust reverser activation while in a fast belly landing would almost certainly apply enough force on a long enough moment arm that the plane would indeed spin horizontally like a pinwheel.
p.s. I have reason to believe that safety interlocks make close to impossible to have one-sided thrust reverse.
let’s pile on Anon@1620, neener neener
How many more of these failures can Boeing take before going wheels up?
^^^ Dog pile, but I really hate feeding the trolls.
Yeah, I was reading accounts yesterday that said the pilot “Slammed on the emergency brakes” and shredded the tires.
Tim Buktu
I’m pretty sure this was all maintenance and had nothing to do with Boeing. Or Boing as I now like to call them.
Here is a crash where asymmetic reverse thrust combined with bad procedures spun a plane off the runway and into a building, killing a planeload of folks and a few on the ground.
https://youtu.be/Lpi7ojiZEkc?si=8N70IdxYFckg3eir
Brad didnt say it anyway, and even if he did he wouldnt be wrong.
That was completely uncalled for provocation.
Planes don’t need wheels to fly.
If two engines can produce enough thrust to raise a plane off the ground to tens of thousands of feet elevation and push the plane through the air at hundreds of miles per hour a single engine with the thrust reverser activated can spin it around, even if it can only produce half the thrust force in the reverse direction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/y3b9wq/thrust_reverser/?rdt=56498
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They were probably retreads.
@Bad Brad
You are most likely correct, sir.
“Boing” reminds me of the Jerry Lewis movie “Boeing, Boeing”…when a young fella sees a pretty Stewardess/Flight Attendant…that I think was the joke in the movie title.
Jethro
Yea, we have this big hollow tube with levers attached to opposite sides. LOL.
I’m thinking the coward anon is about as mechanically inclines as your average tree squirrel.
Tim Buktu
Ironically I’m sitting at my desk right now signing renewals for annual rights to view Boeing Proprietary process specs. And believe me, they own them all. Boing. Someone intentionally drove that company into the ground.
Related;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOG9tL6MKM&ab_channel=SenatorJoshHawley
Guys, I’m not exactly a Boeing cheerleader. But this event had NOTGHING to do with Boeing. How many hundreds of people have worked on that jet since it was delivered? Where did the affected parts come from? Who replaced them? Who inspected the work? By all means, clobber Boeing when they deserve to be clobbered, but they’re probably innocent this time.
that article is some of the worst aviation reporting I’ve ever read.
what happened is entirely to be expected after a “heavy” aborts a takeoff at or slightly before V1. the brakes did their job. the FD got their a little late and doused the brakes wheels and tires but not in time for the heat transfer from the roters to the wheels took place (again, perfectly normal) and the tires caught fire. relax the FD was on the job. they knocked the fire down and everyone deplaned and went to the bar for a drink.
everything worked as it should.
Roger, Subprime!
Refused take-offs, all that energy has to go somewhere. Mostly heat and the result is deflation via temperature pressure relief, although as an industry tiee failure is a known hazard. While there is a very specific combination of operator errors that can allow a modern jet to “skid” its tires, I suspect the 787 avionics suite has got that bit of boneheadedness covered. Anyone care to guess where automotive antiskid came from?
automotive antiskid came from down hill skid trials of a certain convertible at the Chelsea Proving Grounds
Gabriel Voisin, 1929. For planes.
Boeing doesn’t make tires – or change them. The airline is responsible. Remember, there are only TWO makers of large passenger jets: Boeing and Airbus. So enough with these bullshit stories from the bullshit news.
Never fly on an airline that uses retreads.
I’m not a pilot or an A&P but I play one on iotwreport.