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Tire falls off United flight departing SFO, crushing several vehicles in parking lot, company says (abc7news.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Then it bounced again and landed on a Tesla

Plane tire go on chapo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Waiting for the story when they try and land in a few hours…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"The 777-200 has six tires on each of its two main landing gear struts. The aircraft is designed to land safely with missing or damaged tires," the airline said.

The article says it landed in LAX fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

2 planes in one day? luuul

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

and both Boeing, and both United (which I think is the more likely reason for the failures.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this just screams "poor maintenance!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It's buried in the article, but yep it's a Boeing.