Is this going to become a 'thing' in which every airplane malfunction becomes a major news event.
Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
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Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#32All airliners occasionally have problems with wheels and/or tires. And occasionally have cracked window glass. And occasionally have engine failures. And occasionally have pressurization problems, Read avherald.com for a few days and you'll see that it happens to Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier, and others. And with the number of flights worldwide, some kind of problem serious enough to cause a return to the aipo…
Is a wheel coming off of the front of an airplane a "normal problem" on par with an engine failure or a cracked window glass?
Various things related to it are common "enough" that you can find discussion around them - for example the Airbus sideways landing gear: https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/landing-with-nosewheels-at-90...
Of course, these are "normal problems" that shouldn't happen and need to be investigated, but it's not quite "the front fell off": https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#33Is this going to become a 'thing' in which every airplane malfunction becomes a major news event.
For a few weeks anyway. Attention is fickle.
Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#34Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#35All airliners occasionally have problems with wheels and/or tires. And occasionally have cracked window glass. And occasionally have engine failures. And occasionally have pressurization problems, Read avherald.com for a few days and you'll see that it happens to Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier, and others. And with the number of flights worldwide, some kind of problem serious enough to cause a return to the aipo…
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Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#36Great visualization of the outbound stack in the video.
I'm sure ATC was super happy to have orderly departures thrown into disarray.
Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#37Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#38Here comes the confirmation bias. Now, every issue with a Boeing plane will be noticed, reported on and magnified. I'm not saying this is necessarily bad as there actually do seem to be some significant issues at Boeing. Hopefully, the result is an intense shakeup resulting in increased focus on quality.
> Now, every issue with a Boeing plane will be noticed, reported on and magnified.
It is a safety critical industry. Did you expect something different? Would we be "better served" by acting differently?
The goal of someone flying is to get there alive, not win the war against bias.
Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#39Here comes the confirmation bias. Now, every issue with a Boeing plane will be noticed, reported on and magnified. I'm not saying this is necessarily bad as there actually do seem to be some significant issues at Boeing. Hopefully, the result is an intense shakeup resulting in increased focus on quality.
> Now, every issue with a Boeing plane will be noticed, reported on and magnified. It is a safety critical industry. Did you expect something different? Would we be "better served" by acting differently? The goal of someone flying is to get there alive, not win the war against bias.
The tone of your comment confuses me. I didn’t say it was a bad thing at all.
Re: Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't really answer it, most tires hold enough shape to be able to roll on their own.
You're right, they do. And I'm certainly no expert, but I have a more difficult time imagining a tire coming off the wheel intact without some catastrophic "blowout" impeding it's ability to smoothly roll than I do imagining a whole wheel coming off.
Leak, low pressure becomes no pressure, various lateral forces encouraging the tire to fold this way and that under mass, and soon enough the tire alone escapes its tormentor (because it’s being bent and pushed in ways similar to those that originally encouraged it to pop onto the wheel) and scurries away toward an unsuspecting fence.