United Airlines flight loses a tyre, makes emergency landing in new trouble for Boeing: Video
Image of United Airlines flight after making emergency landing.
A United Airlines plane that departed from San Francisco for Japan made an emergency landing in Los Angeles after it lost a tyre duringtake-off on Thursday (Mar 7), in yet another headache for planemaker Boeing.
In the videos of the incident circulated on social media platforms,
Videos on social media show the momentone of the six tyres of the Boeing 777, placed on its left-side main landing gear assembly, fell off after it took off.
The tyre fell inside San Francisco International Airport's employee parking lot where it smashed over a car and shattered the vehicle's back window, broke through a fence and stopped inside a neighbouring lot.
In a statement, airport spokesman Doug Yakel said that no one suffered injuries. Fire engines were present at Los Angeles International Airport, however, they were not needed as an uneventful landing was made by theBoeing 777 which stopped after running nearly two-thirds of the runway.
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Airport spokesman Dae Levine confirmed that the aeroplane made a safe landing and was then towed away.
Plane designed to land safely with missing or damaged tyres
The plane carried 14 crew members and 235 passengers, according to United Airlines. The airline stated that the flight, built in 2002, was designed to make a safe landing with damaged or missing tyres.
United Airlines said that the passengers were shifted to another plane for the remaining journey. Six tyres are attached to the Boeing 777s, on each side of its two main landing gears.
According to aviation experts, the loss of tyres by planes is a rare occurrence and does not indicate a larger safety issue.
“In aviation, we never want to have single points of failure if they can be avoided, and this is a case in point,” said Alan Price, a former chief pilot for Delta Air Lines, speaking to The Associated Press.
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“The remaining tyres are fully capable of handling the load,” he said. Price claimed that a loose tyre is just a maintenance issue and is not an issue created by the manufacturer.
Professor of aviation safety at the University of Southern California and retired pilot John Cox also agreed. “I don’t see any impact for Boeing as it was a United maintenance team that changed the tyre,” he said.
Spokesman Tony Molinaro said that the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the incident.
Months back, an Alaska Airlines' Boeing jetliner blew out a part of its fuselage seven minutes after it took off, above Oregon, Portland. The fall of the door plug forced the pilots to make an emergency landing as wild winds gushed in and some belongings of passengers were sucked out.
(With inputs from agencies)