Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL

Post by wenc » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

lawlessone wrote: post #45

Flatcircle wrote: post #42

Had a physics teacher in highschool, worked on a submarine. Told me that with government equipment like submarines, workers replace parts based on dates regardless of the wear and tear of the part. "If this screw is supposed to last 10 years, we're ordered to replace it in 7 years regardless of the condition." With for profit companies, they'd try to push the parts to last 12 years instead of 10 by inspecting them an…

I've heard the word AI being used around this before... and it scares me.

Post by etskinner » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 9:17 PM UTC

mpreda wrote: post #44

SoftTalker wrote: post #15

All 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…

And all airliners ocasionally have two complete-loss crashes a few months apart? (346 people died in two similar crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings

Post by daveslash » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 9:26 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #40

daveslash wrote: post #25

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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.

Post by mrits » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 9:57 PM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #34

oh_nice_marmot wrote: post #30

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That's highly unusual. How do their cars move?

We roll on polyhedrons where s approaches infinity.

Post by mvdtnz » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:19 AM UTC

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #58

mvdtnz wrote: post #54

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I wasn't joking, I'm not going to use the American spelling just because I'm talking about how Americans use the word. They really do use "wheel" and "tyre" interchangeably.

I'm an American, and I disagree, mostly. I've never heard someone say a "flat wheel"; it's always flat tire. Also if an American says a wheel came off when they mean a tire, they misspoke/misunderstand what they are talking about. There are plenty of Americans that know next to nothing about their vehicle despite it usually being the most expensive or second most expensive thing they own. Disclaimer: Midwest USA here…