A United Airlines Boeing 777 lost a wheel on takeoff. It smashed a car on its way through an employee parking lot and into a Hertz rental lot.
Planes get plenty of redundant systems because flying, at the best of times, is a real workout on an aircraft. For instance, the Boeing 777 bolts six tires apiece on each of its two rear landing gear struts., which held the contract to supply the rubber, each 36-ply tire on the rear gear is 52 inches across by 21 inches wide, weighs 266 pounds, is inflated to between 200 and 220 psi, can be run up to 235 miles per hour and can support a load of 66,500 pounds.
Here’s the car smooshed by the United wheel at SFO. You can see the rubber smudge, and the circular imprint of the tire.company parking lot. San Francisco airport shut down its runway briefly to clear any debris, The United flight, having avoided an emergency, turned south and landed safely at LAX two hours later. No one was hurt on the ground, and none of the four pilots, ten cabin crew, or 249 passengers suffered anything worse than a story to tell family and friends.
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