WHEEL FALLS OFF UNITED AIRCRAFT during Takeoff at San Francisco!

[@VASAviation]

According to latest videos, the wheel fell over a parking lot causing severe damage to parked cars. More information to be updated as it releases.

[@virginiatyree6705]

Something told me you'd be quick on this possible mess up; you were. Thanks for posting! v

[@delta250a]

Yep there is a picture on Reddit of the damage.

[@BillHustonPodcast]

Great job, VAS, locating all of the news clips and radio frequency changes!

[@jameskim62]

THANK GOODNESS, NO INJURIES !!!!!

[@HansDelbruck53]

United Airlines is going to be buying some folks a new car. Don't worry, they'll pass the cost on to future passengers.

[@tonybeam]

I remember the time when tires did not randomly fall off departing aircraft. Those were the Goodyears.

[@kuckoo9036]

Ba-dum _tss_

[@junqueboi387]

Nice! :)

[@donnafromnyc]

Rimshot!!!

[@benoithudson7235]

Ouch. This pun Hertz.

[@jimforbes9119]

In approx 1980 I was Quality Control Manager Wheel& Brake for a Co that provided overhauled wheels/ brakes and tires to SW Airlines. They had a wheel fall of a 137/200. I had to do a complete incident investigation. The cause was the wheel manufacturer's maintenance specs were not strict enough. The wheel bearing race (steel) pressure from load against the aluminum wheel hub caused the race to loosen and depart the wheel taking the outer bearing and axle nut with it. The aircraft mfg (Boeing) and operator (SW Airlines) had NO fault!

[@largosgaming]

United sounded so chipper and happy to fly until he heard his wheel fell off.

[@sarahlachman1349]

Yeah, so sad; it reminds me of when the swa hit an idiot on the runway a few years back. Nothing like bad news to take the winds out of your sail. Shame those poor passengers had to suffer a delay due to a stupid wheel. What the hell is going on with Boeing Maintence recently, everyone is slipping up recently

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

@@sarahlachman1349 is that Boeing Maintenance or United Maintenance...? I would have thought this kind of "regular maintenance " would be something in the airline purview...

[@SlipShodBob]

I am waiting for the Boeing version after the plug incident of the Australian Clarke and Dawe sketch with the tanker that the front fell off.

[@alboreland5949]

@@sarahlachman1349 this airplane is roughly 20 years old, it went through hundreds and hundreds of tires changed by the airline. this isn't a Boeing fault especially if its an age related issue on the landing gear.

[@pesto12601]

We only hear about the "issues" ... not the hundred thousand flights that happen daily that occur WITHOUT INCIDENT?

[@cp300blackout4]

Kudos to the spotter who reported the fallen wheel!! 👏👏👏

[@wcolbyHD]

The spotter that shot it did not notice it when it happened, but everyone is stealing his video nonetheless.

[@cp300blackout4]

Congratulations to the spotter, or other observer who gave the alert!! Great sense of participation in flight safety. Thank you!! 👏👏👏👍

[@RetroJack]

@@Johnny-Michael What's that got to do with anything?

[@myusernameisthisduh]

ok?@@Johnny-Michael

[@Jetliner]

@@Johnny-Michael why do you even care if you're not Japanese lmao

[@RevUnstableBoy]

"Jesus take the wheel" "no not that wheel!"

[@lucasporte4067]

hahahahahaha

[@oldRighty1]

"I need that one"

[@thefoxyscentury]

😂

[@Pants4096]

I hope you're happy.... I just laughed so hard it woke up my cat. ಠ_ಠ

[@danc3488]

You just won the comment of the day with that one lmao

[@Homer554]

This controller is a bad ass - steady, consistent, confident and clear. Great job

[@MXedos]

Yes, first he gave the instructions, waited for the confirmation from the pilot, then offered the reason. Good job from that controller on keeping the pilot focused on one transmission or task.

[@ChuuMoon777]

Well yeah, they’re supposed to be calm under these type of situations

[@OppositeOpinion]

and bad phraseology :D

[@Homer554]

@@ChuuMoon777 well ya “supposed to be,” but does that happen every time?

[@ocaviation5234]

That'd be a fun one to explain to insurance. "Uhhh so yeah, my car got smashed by a 777 tire in the parking lot."

[@jonathankleinow2073]

"Seen it, covered it!"

[@TheDoc98117]

Hope their insurance covers that

[@xxRoachxx]

@@TheDoc98117 pretty sure it will be covered by the airline

[@haroldlipschitz9301]

More complicated in this case because company aircraft tire damaged cars in same company employee parking lot lol

[@Batters56]

Acts of god aren’t covered.

[@tvsi23]

Was taxiing out at SFO while this happened today. Y’all are quick with it

[@VASAviation]

Started working on it before the aircraft even landed.

[@virginiatyree6705]

​@@VASAviation, Fast as usual! Thanks for posting. v

[@amrickdhillon1283]

Did you actually see it happen?

[@tvsi23]

@@amrickdhillon1283 no we were taxiing down to 1R and this happened on 28R so we were facing the other way. Just heard it all going down

[@arjunyg4655]

@@VASAviationcurious, where’d you get the audio from? Is SFO so interesting that you record the feed live yourself lol? I thought usually you pull the archive from LiveATC, but that takes usually about a day to become available, afaict.

[@nikh9080]

I fly a 777-200. Those wheels are about 50" in diameter probably 16" wide. I would bet they weigh 300-400lbs if not more. The energy that thing had when it hit the ground would have been terrifying. It easily would crush a car or go right through a concrete wall. The fact it didn't hit anything or anyone is a miracle.

[@neuropilot7310]

It wrecked at least one car, according to photos circulating around

[@VASAviation]

It indeed destroyed a parked car.

[@dandaman4985]

I wonder how high it could bounce

[@sketchyAnalogies]

You gotta see the picture it's quite something

[@RT-qd8yl]

That's like a semi on the highway losing a wheel.... x10. 😳

[@rickochetk3831]

Special shout out to Sal at CaliPlanes for getting the departure of UA35 at SFO.

[@Tammyperry1]

#CaliPlanes #Salrocks

[@whatissixtynine]

INCREDIBLE that it got filmed, and in such detail.

[@wisanu99]

So spotters are being the unpaid safety crew to make sure aircraft’s departure with no failure. If somehow spotters don’t see it then what? They go all the way to Osaka and land unknowingly that they miss a wheel. That’s scary. Since it lands normally, then whom will see it first? The luggage crew? Boy I hope it’s not the next flight pilot walk around.

[@muhdiversity7409]

@@wisanu99 You can be sure that they'll find a way to ban spotters

[@SymooJames]

These guys should film the 'UFO spottings'

[@nicholas1539]

​@wisanu99 if it landed with all that weight safely in lax, it'll land even more safely after it burns all its fuel on the way to Osaka. It'll then be AOG as soon as ground personnel notice the missing wheel. Easier to get a replacement aircraft and accommodate the passengers in LAX

[@Eddyspeeder]

"ARFF, as always, you guys are the best" -> A sweet but so well-deserved compliment! Can concur for the guys at FRA.

[@jonbowlerbowler7366]

What Does ARFF Stand For

[@mac_cy3636]

​@@jonbowlerbowler7366Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting

[@Joseph0862]

@jonbowlerbowler7366 ARFF stands for Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting

[@jackmix1984]

That wheel hit multiple cars at Rental Car Center. I work at SFO and watched the video. This is more common than you think. Another tire fell off a different airplane. If you take the Airtrain from Garage G to Westfield, look to the right, you can still see the wheel on the roof of Southwest Cargo.

[@craig7350]

When I park my car at the airport, the most I've been concerned about something falling on it was some pigeon guano. Never thought about a tire..

[@jonathanbott87]

Just don't take the top deck... 😳

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

had a piece of the floodlight fall onto our family car once... they said the wind that day was in the high 80s of knots, though, in that part of the world, that was not even so uncommon....

[@craig7350]

@@stanislavkostarnov2157 I parked under a floodlight so I could find my car when I returned from a 2 week vacation in Vegas. I didn't know sea gulls sat on floodlights. While I was running my car through the wash for the 3rd time I vowed to always look down, to see what was normally falling on the ground where I was going to park, as well as looking up.

[@AEMoreira81]

Let alone off a plane. At least the 777 bogie is 6 tires on each (the number 10 tire fell off).

[@TheMcIke]

That's why they put employee lots at the end of runways and not customer lots :)

[@DBR00]

It's always nice to hear professionalism from the pilots when they are told to go around.

[@codemonkey2k5]

You kind of expect it flying in to SFO

[@kjdude8765]

The Delta sounded a bit surprised, like: "Guess I can check that one off the list." Cleared to go around...

[@_Muel_]

@@kjdude8765she could've been confused as to why the one runway (28R) was closed. Pilots check beforehand with the airports they're going to for runway closures or other things to watch out for. So for them to be getting ready to land there, only to be suddenly told the runway was closed, probably made her wonder what was going on.

[@Wriwnas1]

At 3:38 he says "if it was indeed our tire" not "if it wasn't a tire". Thank you for a fantastic job with the captions as always :), this one was easy to missunderstand :P

[@crammydavisjr5813]

This is what professionalism sounds like on every single front. Well done to everyone involved for bringing this to a safe, albeit annoying for the pax, outcome. Great job!

[@CarlosRamirez-fy1xo]

They really fly these things till the wheels fall off nowadays 😢

[@boeingpilot7002]

Sounds like a new take on an old song: "You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel! With a plane in the air and damaged cars on the field."

[@cruisinguy6024]

lol nice

[@eric_in_florida]

A+

[@wendygerrish4964]

Love it.

[@barbarajeffries]

Of course I’m singing the song now. Great comment 😂

[@strnglhld]

That’s a wheely good song

[@JxsonKing]

Working as a controller at SFO is already an entirely different beast. But then you have a situation like this to screw it up even further?? My props to the controllers for sure.

[@ShayBlez]

Whoever filmed the tire/wheel falling off is a fucking legend, thank you for the crucial clip of context for us following the video

[@thenamazing6530]

🎵The wheels on the plane go bounce, bounce, bounce…🎵

[@selliott00]

LA Flights Channel showed the landing gear with the missing tire as it was being towed to the gate at LAX.

[@NASCARBotWCUE]

Yes they did I was in the live stream

[@sturmovik1274]

As of this time UAL35 is expected to depart LAX at about 7:30 PST and will reach Osaka at 12:45 AM local time, about 8 hours late.

[@jamesphillips2285]

Amazing that the video is edited and up within 8 hours.

[@slk7659]

Love the respect shown for emergency folks too.

[@ds78613]

Best SFO controller to make it on here in a while!

[@Rhaman68]

Glad everyone is safe.

[@tryste_mx]

Past everyone. Sadly current and future everyones are not.

[@carygutnick]

I can only imagine the landline calls of NorCal and Oakland Center being so confused on what tower is telling them and then the United pilots also being like ummm ok thanks

[@sailormike1089]

As Darrell Waltrip from NASCAR used to say. You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel. Glad it landed safely. AVL streamed it landing live. Looks like the whole brake assembly was still attached.

[@Dane3804]

I'd just like to thank the airlines for providing regular content material for the Blancolerio channel get em" Juan!😂 But seriously I'm glad no one was hurt or killed.

[@doobybrother21]

Sure Juan will show us a manual explaining how to tighten all the bolts, if any where in place. Looking forward to it :)

[@TheGospelQuartetParadise]

@VASAviation As usual great breakdown and audio. Thanks for crediting our channel Cali Planes for the video footage.

[@VASAviation]

Sure thing, awesome catch!

[@TheGospelQuartetParadise]

@@VASAviation One thing nobody mentioned is that Runway 28L is currently out of service at sfo and I would question what would have happened had it been open and another aircraft was landing and that tire came off further back down the runway when the triple 7 rotated.

[@0101-s7v]

NOTICE: Bolt tightening is now OPTIONAL on all Boeing aircraft.

[@ralphe5842]

😂

[@raikoafm702]

Axle nut and bolts securing the axle nut were intact 🫢

[@jimforbes9119]

Parts DO not fall off airplanes because of faulty design or manufacture. Nor do doors just open for the same reason. Poor/shoddy maintenance is most likely the cause. American Airlines just ordered 85 new Boeing planes. I seriously doubt they spend that much money on an inferior product!

[@raikoafm702]

@jimforbes9119 Never seen fatigue cracks before?

[@filanfyretracker]

@@jimforbes9119 QA is part of manufacture. If the QA is shoddy than a faulty product goes out the door.

[@GMaviation]

I’ll never get TIREd watching your videos!🙏

[@grayrabbit2211]

Nice to see something positive and professionalism out of SFO tower.

[@malekodesouza7255]

Man. I can only imagine the damage at the tire “landing zone”…

[@jonathankleinow2073]

I'm not the only one who went "Wheeee!" out loud when the tire flew off, right?

[@TheCOZ]

For me it was "Bombs away!"

[@watashiandroid8314]

Yup, I also said "wheeeee!" out loud.

[@shawnmccorkle5059]

Excellent job. Heard about this today while watching AVL. Impressive in how you obtained this audio so quickly!!!

[@Midcon77]

That was great! Glad everything turned out well. Nice job getting the video out so fast!

[@RipRoaringGarage]

Damn, Victor! You are QUICK!

[@richardc020]

My first thought, too!

[@donh6416]

About 1980 my Camaro was struck by a chuck of ice about the size of a 3 pound coffee can. I was a warm summer day. I heard the strike from inside the house. Called the police. The officer who responded said he thought it fell off a passing airliner. Said he was a private pilot and had heard rumors of that occurring. My insurance covered it under the comprehensive coverage. Showed them photos I took. The dent was the same size as the chunk of ice found on the ground.

[@lauriesue2244]

Yes I’ve heard of that occurring. Those jets fly so high and it’s cold up there

[@mrkc10]

Kudos to the crew,ATC and everyone else involved 👍🏻 Professionalism on display.

[@BobBurroughYT]

Excellent job piecing all of this together.

[@VASAviation]

Thank you

[@chewie94116]

Great landing, United Airlines pilot! Strong work!!!

[@mango7862]

Wish I could say the same about their technicians

[@MrPomelo555]

That was brilliant work, Victor. Well done.

[@SVD_NL]

Runaway wheels are terrifying. I can't imagine the amount of stored energy on a 777 tire at takeoff speed...

[@tact86]

Kudos to VASAviation for a great video!

[@AviatorFox]

Wow! You were on top of this one. Fast upload

[@Steve-Jody]

Retired ATC 2014 35 years. Good to hear good phraseology being used. I can just imagine hearing NorCal Tracon SFO final controller, what the F, like I don’t have enough planes, I have to work them again. ?” I recommend retirement boys ! SA

[@tyaucupis]

Great professionalism from everyone.

[@sherryscholtz9299]

Watched the landing at LAX on Airline Videos Live and saw pictures of the poor car that was damaged at SFO. Well done to Sal for catching the departure from SFO.

[@csjames69]

It’s so dumb that some media outlets are criticising Boeing for this problem and linking it to the Alaska airline door failure. For a start, this incident involved a triple seven and not the 737 Max. A wheel falling off is probably a maintenance issue and not a manufacturing issue.

[@andromedayelton6672]

I really appreciate that you tracked down all those frequencies to give us the complete story!

[@Shotsmoky]

Watched it all unfold live on LA Flights this afternoon. Great job by Peter.

[@Tammyperry1]

#Caliplanesrocks

[@justsnappy]

Nice work, Victor

[@ChicagoAirportSpotter]

I remember years ago a tired falling off a plane at O'Hare and hitting a pregnant lady's car on either Mannheim Road or Irving Park Road (IL-19). I was a kid, so this would've been early or mid-1990s and I might be a bit foggy on some of the details. Amazing work by everybody involved here!

[@pesawatindonesia]

Perfecto. Gracias por el contenido y el comentario.

[@_w_w_]

No wonder so many flights were landing in SJC today.

[@jeffbrinkerhoff5121]

Vas, Blancolirio, Dan Gryder, Hoovie, all jewels of aviation content. Thanks for this important coverage..

[@jonb1798]

Twr: Ops 36 did I not hear you correctly? Ops: /bsssbdasvoiyharekbfsfviuph/ Twr: Ok, clear to proceed as discussed.

[@TheSheriffofCaliPlanes]

Thank you for crediting our channel for the video coverage.

[@DKrueger1994]

Saw this on the evening news

[@harrygatto]

Good to see that this news article actually knows the difference between a wheel and a tire, most news reports said that a tyre fell off.

[@VectirR6]

2:05 The pilot seems so happy to flight before he knew about the issue 😂

[@JamesFunke-s3r]

Excellent response from all involved. Thankfully no one was injured other than the owners of the cars. ATCs on both ends were top flight as were each crew in the go arounds.

[@Luxandruz]

I’m a glass half-full type of guy. The plane still kept its other 13 tires

[@EdOeuna]

Which is why the continued with the flight and only diverted after a conference call with airline engineers and management. Boeing SOP is to continue unless there are other failures or a few other considerations.

[@N1120A]

Quick upload Victor!

[@VASAviation]

Always! :)

[@stevevenn1]

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. -Ogden Nash

[@richardc020]

My first thought, too!

[@virginiatyree6705]

Thanks for the quick update! Thank you for posting. You're the best. v

[@VASAviation]

Thank you for watching

[@virginiatyree6705]

@@VASAviation , Sure, anytime. 😘 Love the channel. v

[@Hot1765]

Waiting on “the front fell off meme guy to speak up “ ..the wheel fell off

[@logicplague]

Is that normal?

[@murphsmodels8853]

ot if it's something like an axle shearing

[@1320fastback]

It fell off out of the environment.

[@HerosMS]

Der hatte'n Reife' verlore'.

[@NicolaW72]

Thank you very much for bringing up here this Event!🙂👍 Indeed very professional handled by all participants.

[@bethanyc4305]

ATC working for there money as always 👏👏

[@gorak9000]

there money, and not here money??

[@bethanyc4305]

@@gorak9000 what you on about

[@gorak9000]

@@bethanyc4305 What time is it? Time to get a dictionary?

[@Daniel15au]

Wow, this was fast. I live in the Bay Area and heard about this on your channel before hearing about it in the local news.

[@VASAviation]

VASAviation, good source for aviation haha

[@TiptronicSS]

Meanwhile in Russia without QC parts: -flight xx, this is tower -yes tower -you dropped some tires, slats, flaps and an engine, we recommend you return. -nah, it'll be aayt don't worry

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

I mean Ilyushin's and Sukhoi's are probably safer than Boeings at this point

[@david-fx3fj]

Watching it live was like, did that really happen since nobody saying anything. These live plane spotting are just usually routine until, wow that really happen.

[@eco2geek.]

"You picked a fine time to leave me, Loose Wheel...."

[@jake_]

With the exception of the mechanic responsible for the wheel in question, everybody else did an outstanding, professional job. .

[@combcomclrlsr]

Got to hear the somewhat rare "pan pan pan".

[@andij605]

good SFO controller alert!! good job everyone

[@eazymoneyracing]

Bring on the "I blame Boeing" people vs United maintenance posts.

[@AL-pc1rb]

The rightoids are already blaming minorities

[@atinwoodsman]

💯 on United, unless United blames Boeing 😆

[@markn866]

How about I blame no one. Failures can still happen due to any number of unseen things including a fatiguing wheel that would not be discovered until a more rigorous inspection interval is met. Also, novel incidents like this have to be evaluated on a case by case basis. There is no data to support finding a trend.

[@zinny54]

Great coverage as usual. Bravo.

[@cantliff9]

ATC to Pilot - we think you might have lost a tyre! - Pilot - er ok, keep my informed (probably thinking, oh great, thats just what i needed today)

[@challenger604pilot]

Great job by all. And the spotter that reported it. Question. Why wouldn’t they go back to SFO instead of diverting to LAX?

[@carygutnick]

To burn fuel

[@sylviaisgod6947]

Runway littered with feces and drug needles.

[@ptrinch]

Perhaps they had an available hanger at LAX for the repair. Or more options out of LAX for rerouting the passengers to Osaka.

[@richardbaker7249]

One of the 28s is closed for construction. Landing on the other and needing a tow off would have shut down the airport to arrivals until they got pulled clear

[@tomsmith5584]

To burn fuel, and to get time to have another plane and crew ready to continue the flight for the passengers.

[@darrenp5053]

so was this a boeing plane quality issue or a san fran diversity hire mechanic that forgot to put the nuts and bolts on ?????

[@coastermania17]

I wouldn't say it's a Boeing quality issue on this one, considering this particular plane has been in the hands of United Airlines for 22 years

[@TProphet]

Super professional all around.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

United DEI strikes again.

[@sylviaisgod6947]

I made a poem about it! There once was a CEO named Scott, Who said "fire every white guy we got", Replace every one you can, WIth Tyrones and Trans, Then search for the bolts they forgot

[@nocalsteve]

Could you imagine if Maggie was the first officer on that flight? “My aircraft, Captain! I’ve done this before.”

[@ChazShags]

A modern aircraft with all of its sensors and systems. No indication that the tire fell off in the cockpit. Amazing!!

[@CraftAero]

A modern airport with the latest tech but... Just get one casino camera watcher to look for "deviations". They would have caught that on the side while watching 5 Black Jack tables. "ooh, buddy pulled an ace... oh shit, that plane just lost a wheel.

[@doobybrother21]

A camera at the end of the runway hooked up to an AI system will catch this easily. @@CraftAero

[@markn866]

Losing a wheel is likely not critical to the safe operation of the airplane and it is a bad idea to fire off alerts for every slight anomaly in the cockpit. It would distract pilots in phases of flight (landing and takeoff) where they need only get invested in safety critical situations.

[@jumpingjeffflash9946]

I know of a C-5 losing 2 nose tires due to a maintenance oversight about 15 years ago.

[@jimcaufman2328]

If the crew would have pulled up the landing gear page, the tire pressures would have been displayed and the #10 tire would have been blank.

[@cruisinguy6024]

I’d like to believe they thought of that and did indeed check

[@Dr_KW]

Depending on how they wire the tire pressure monitor, in the event the wheel is violently ripped from the gear/in the presence of moisture, it may cause the sensor wires to short or open, which may simply represent the bounds of the expected pressure readings. It may be the engineers that programmed it never expected a catastrophic failure...kind of a Boeing theme with software lol

[@parti-gyle6466]

Or else the tire pressure sensor has a wireless connectivity of a coupla-three hundred miles.

[@EdOeuna]

The system should have given them EICAS TIRE PRESSURE if the pressure wasn’t normal. I’m guessing that a loss of the entire wheel means the tyre pressure sensor just doesn’t display anything as opposed to zero.

[@doncook3584]

Yikes that wheel would kill anyone struck by it. Similar incident on I-680 in Omaha June 2020 driving home from sons baseball I observed a fully inflated wheel/source unknown/ bouncing down the southbound lane ahead of us and coming straight at us. Resisted first reaction to brake assessing situation. Coasted and simultaneously hit flashers hoping to alert vehicles behind me. Avoided impact but traveling at 65mph couldn’t turn to look as roadway curves at that spot. Was over in just seconds and didn’t see anything on the news so presumably come to stop somewhere. Sent chills up my spine. A stretch of slab I have to travel with some frequency and I hate it but I’m always alert

[@lawrencethompson465]

The lead story tonight on Korean TV (KBS) was about “loose wheels” from semi trucks and busses plus other debris flying off of trailers.

[@filanfyretracker]

@@lawrencethompson465 upkeep on trailers is especially questionable here in the USA. Far more common than a lost wheel though is them injuring or killing someone when the retread flies off. Retread is when a company is too cheap for new safe tires so they slap new tread on the existing one. Thing is those have a habit of flying off at highway speeds.

[@lawrencethompson465]

@@filanfyretracker The KBS TV showed specifically mentioned flying treads likely due to low tire inflation which tended to cause tire warming up and weakening them leading to blowouts and treads loosening and breaking off. Low and poor equipment management practices cited as major causes.

[@karlbrundage7472]

Very professional throughout..............

[@ryancrazy1]

Dang he buttered that landing too. Good job!

[@mshaftenberg]

This reminds me of the German meme "Wolfgang pass auf, der hat nen Reifen verloren", where a plane is landing over the camera lens and someone just threw a car tire in front of the cam 😂

[@aaltag4068]

I am 100% sure there will be an edit with this plane and the meme by the end of next week

[@spionsilver9626]

everything went smooth and professional you can hear that controller going into emergency mode .. taking care of there go arounds and making sure he got his runways inspected .. i just wished the inspecting vehicles and ground crews would come in a little faster . can hear the impatience in controllers voice there too :)

[@aerialbugsmasher]

Corrections: At 3:35 he was saying "if it was indeed our tire"

[@KanalFrump]

Like a big machine, professionals all around.

[@Boodieman72]

Wonder if something broke or someone forgot to tighten the bolts on the gear.

[@get2dachoppa249]

The wheel assemblies are held onto the axle by a nut, kind of like how the front fork axle and the rear swing arm axle of the motorcycle in your profile pic.

[@markn866]

I'd bet something broke. Check out Stig Aviation for an airline maintenance guy's educated opinion.

[@mobiletransportvideo]

News is saying it’s a Boeing problem but wouldn’t the problem be with the person that checked the tyre (tire for the yanks). It made news in Australia.

[@garygerard4290]

I use to drive big trucks. We had to do an extensive pre-trip inspection then a post trip inspection. Plane companies should have to do the same thing.

[@unmountablebootvolume]

Normally, for long-range stuff, the ground crew does an in-depth pretrip, and the pilot also does a pretrip before every flight, but faults like bad wheel bearings are sometimes not obvious until you're moving, even less so on a large aircraft.

[@markn866]

They do, but I doubt an inspection would reveal hidden flaws in a rim. Sometimes novel and rare things happen. Airplanes already go through heavy maintenance intervals and the fact that they fly so successfully every day and safer than anything on land or sea is a testament to it.

[@garybeck-t3v]

Comforting to know the pilots didn't get any indication in the cockpit. Makes me want to fly more! YIKES!!!

[@timkellyD2R]

This proves how the most dangerous part of any vacation is the drive to the airport.