United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO

[PHXPhlyer]

Tire flies off United Boeing plane shortly after takeoff
The plane landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport after taking off from San Francisco en route to Osaka.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ti ... rcna142366

A tire flew off a United Airlines Boeing plane shortly after taking off from San Francisco on Thursday, prompting an emergency landing in Los Angeles.

Moments after United Airlines Flight 35 ascended into the air, one of the tires on the underside of the Boeing 777-200 detached.

The plane landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport around 1:30 p.m. local time after the flight crew reported a landing gear issue, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The flight — which was initially carrying 235 customers, 10 flight attendants and four pilots for a total 249 people on board — was headed to Osaka International Airport, the FAA said.

United said "Our team quickly arranged for a new aircraft to take customers to Osaka this evening."

The FAA is investigating the incident.

"We’re grateful to our pilots and flight attendants for their professionalism in managing this situation," United said in a statement. "We’re also grateful to our teams on the ground who were waiting with a tug to move the aircraft soon after it landed and to our teams in the airport who assisted customers upon their arrival."

The airline said it will work with customers as well as those who owned damaged vehicles at San Francisco International Airport "to ensure their needs are addressed."

It is unclear what kinds of vehicles sustained damage or what kind of damage they sustained. The airline did not say whether the vehicles were damaged as a result of the loose tire.

But video posted to social media from the parking lot at SFO shows damaged cars and a dented fence that appear to have been struck by the tire.



According to United, the Boeing 777-200 has "six tires on each of its two main landing gear struts" and is "designed to land safely with missing or damaged tires."

PP

[llondel]

The flight — which was initially carrying 235 customers, 10 flight attendants and four pilots for a total 249 people on board — was headed to Osaka International Airport, the FAA said.

Did some of them jump out en-route?

[PHXPhlyer]

The flight — which was initially carrying 235 customers, 10 flight attendants and four pilots for a total 249 people on board — was headed to Osaka International Airport, the FAA said.

Did some of them jump out en-route?

The flight was initially carrying 14 tires as well.
One of them did depart.

PP

[llondel]

Someone got a video of that bit.

https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7newsbayarea ... kUqHbthe3D

[Ex-Ascot]

Was it a tyre or a wheel?

[Woody]

Looks like the whole wheel in this video

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-68508958

[unifoxos]

Is it normal practice to brake the wheels on an airliner before retracting? If so wouldn't there be a lot of stress when the wheel stops suddenly?

[Boac]

Yes, the main wheels are normally braked as part of the retraction process. Nose-wheel also if braked, or otherwise the wheel encounters a 'snubber' in the nose-gear bay when retracted. It looks as if that is when the wheel 'fell off'.

A pity the Septics don't know the difference between a wheel and a 'tire'......

"Hey, Hank - was there any paperwork on that wheel change....?"

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Boeing....bolts....



..bankruptcy

Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter B!

[Woody]

Boeing....bolts....



..bankruptcy

Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter B!

Seeing as the aircraft has been in service for over twenty two years, I think it asks more questions about Uniteds maintenance procedures rather than a Boeing problem in this case.

I bet that the insurance claims from the staff car park damage will make interesting reading.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Yes, you are quite right.

[talmacapt]

Lost a nose wheel (axle failure) turning onto runway 26R in Berlin, many years ago.

As luck would have it, the sudden difficulty lining up caused me to ask to have it inspected and we didn't take off.

I, to this day, wonder whether there would have been so much vibration that I would have abandonned the take off or whether we could have got airborne and the wheel could have landed in East Berlin.

May have started a war?

Maybe it would be known as "the war of talmacapt's tyre" (apologies to Jenkin's ear).

[tango15]

I won't post the video, but there's a Kenny Rogers song going round and round in my head...

[PHXPhlyer]

It will be interesting to see who signed off the wheel change task card, assuming that it can be found.
Maybe United will take a page from Boeing's playbook (lose the documentation).

PP

[PHXPhlyer]

I bet that the insurance claims from the staff car park damage will make interesting reading.

What are the chances that the employee lot was for United maintenance?

PP

[llondel]

Kenny Rogers has released a song about it: "You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel".

[OFSO]

I thought it was "Islands in the Stream" for some reason.

[PHXPhlyer]

Video via Juan:



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[Dushan]

It will be interesting to see who signed off the wheel change task card, assuming that it can be found.
Maybe United will take a page from Boeing's playbook (lose the documentation).

PP

Maybe it was held by zip ties.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

There's the problem. Should've used hockey tape. You can fix anything with hockey tape.