Wheel falls off United Airlines Boeing 777 and crushes cars in San Francisco

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/united-airlines-plane-tire-blowout-boeing-b2509241.html

by buro9 • 2 years ago

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Bosinski• 2 years ago

oh lord, Boing has run these days..

avgDev2• 2 years ago

Boeing just cannot catch a break.

I'm honestly not sure how common these accidents are normally and media is just paying attention but it is not looking good for Boeing.

nvy• 2 years ago

https://avherald.com/

See for yourself.

JumpCrisscross• 2 years ago

not sure how common these accidents are normally

Wheels and tyres falling off isn’t normal. Two in three months on Boeing planes starts to imply a pattern.

Turbulence injuries, engine problems and strange smells, on the other hand, are quite common [1].

[1] https://avherald.com/

sokoloff• 2 years ago

That landing gear has very likely had wheels on and off the aircraft dozens of times prior to this failure.

The chance that this is (actually, not perception) a Boeing problem versus a maintenance problem is pretty remote.

avgDev2• 2 years ago

Fair assessment. Most likely a maintenance issue.

michaelmrose• 2 years ago

Wheels falling off... controls all dying at once while a plane drops 500 feet in altitude for no reason...door plug flying off while things are sucked out of the plane. Hundreds of people dead because a "smart" control reading from a singular failed sensor (because multiple sensors was a value add) pushed the plane into a dive to hard for pilot to pull out of unless he immediately recognizes that the plane is trying to murder everyone and disables a feature he hasn't been trained on.

None of this is normal. If you look at the price its probably based almost entirely on the presumption that Boeing is too big to fail and will be given as much time as required to fix its problems because its hard and long for its few competitors to pick up its slack but it could easily be more painful than is expressed in its price.

Kluggy• 2 years ago

this is a week old. Nothing new happened this week.

zitterbewegung• 2 years ago

This is a week old ..

tristor• 2 years ago

For those who are going to chime in about it being another issue about Boeing, this is a 777 so is not a new manufacture aircraft. This is a maintenance issue, not a manufacturing issue.

spamizbad• 2 years ago

this seems more like a maintenance issue to me - with the fault being on United.

laweijfmvo• 2 years ago

Curious why they flew all the way to LAX instead of just landing back at SFO? The wheel would have fallen off immediately after take off, before being retracted. Maybe they didn't know until someone found a wheel in/on their car?

bkberry352• 2 years ago

Correct, the pilots did not have any indication in the cockpit. ATC had to identify which plane the tire fell from, contact the plane, the plane had to talk to their company before deciding what to do.

ohnoitsahuman• 2 years ago

To burn off fuel.

Planes are safer to land when they don't have tons of extra fuel.

r00fus• 2 years ago

dupe from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635232

Wheel falls off United Airlines Boeing 777 and crushes cars in San Francisco

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