Seeing that disc brakes were patented in 1902 I would think they have all the bugs ironed out by now
Posted on 06/15/2019 10:29:53 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
United Airlines said one of its jet blew “multiple” tires on Saturday upon landing at Newark Liberty International Airport. Flights were delayed by more than five hours at the busy United hub airport that serves the New York City area.
The tires on the left landing gear of the Boeing 757 blew after Flight 627 from Denver landed at Newark around 1 p.m. said the Federal Aviation Administration.
United Airlines said some customers had minor injuries and that they refused medical attention.
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The aircraft involved, N26123, was flying from Denver as flight UA627 when it concluded its flight with a broken nose. - Catherine Madureira
You’re blaming Boeing for the tires?
Do you have sources to back up those claims?
Stuck brakes?
Blown tires upon landing are not that uncommon on airliners, and not just Boeing-manufactured planes.
In the 1970s, I was on a plane that blew 4 tires upon landing. The airline put us on a different plane for the next leg of the flight. The second plane blew one tire at the next stop. This time, the airline changed out the tire and continued to the third destination. One of the stewardesses said that she had never experienced anything like that before.
I don’t recall that five blown tires on a three leg flight from Michigan to San Francisco made the news, though.
It was American Airlines, if anyone is interested.
Accident: United B752 at Newark on Jun 15th 2019, hard landing
By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Jun 15th 2019 20:08Z, last updated Saturday, Jun 15th 2019 20:43Z
A United Boeing 757-200, registration N26123 performing flight UA-627 from Denver,CO to Newark,NJ (USA) with 166 people on board, landed on Newark’s runway 22L at 12:56L (16:56Z) but bounced and touched down hard causing damage to the nose gear and forward fuselage. The aircraft came to a stop with the nose gear off the left runway edge, still on the paved surface of the runway. The passengers disembarked onto the runway via stairs.
A passenger reported the damage is even visible inside the cabin where the nose gear came up into the cabin.
The airline reported the aircraft experienced multiple flat tyres upon landing in Newark. The aircraft became disabled.
Hard landing?
Yeah, a maintenance issue, if anything.
Maybe the pilot slammed it on the runway rather than landing it. Maybe it caught a wing-tip vortice at the last second. Don’t jump to conclusions.
CC
Hope they had AAA.
Seeing that disc brakes were patented in 1902 I would think they have all the bugs ironed out by now
That said, blown tires on landing could be representative of poor operator (Untied Airlines) policy on replacing tires nearing end of life. Or it could be indicative of a bad cross-wind landing and/or maybe an extremely hard landing. Even professional pilots have a bad day once in a while, land with too much crab in and over stress the tires/gear.
I realize Boeing is a lightning rod for abuse right now, but really... If someone were driving down the road and their tire blew out, or their windshield cracked...would you immediately blame Ford/Chevy etc. ???
I was on a flight about a yr ago that made a “go-around” in perfectly good weather and a pilot friend flying with us explained the difference between “hands-on vs. autoland landings.....He could tell it was going to be a “hands-on” landing before we made the go around...To him it was no big deal as he said new Peter Pilots need hands on practice to keep their skill level up...
Im sure some commercial pilots on this site can explain it better then I can...but I can say an old helicopter crewchief in VN.....I could tell the difference between A/Cs and P/Ps with my eyes closed...
In light of their continued Soviet-style handling of the 737MAX crisis, the current leadership gives me little reason to trust anything associated with them. Top to bottom.
But even secondary to that, Boeing has had a spotty record this year with everything from new military aircraft needing to be recalled due to debris being found or what have you...to the company issuing a warning over a week ago about several dozen new commercial planes (including the grounded 737 MAX) needing key wings parts replaced...and just more revelations of the unfortunate changes in company ethics, hiring practices, and corporate culture in general...like all that new Chinese involvement.
And too many multimillion dollar political donations...like the cool $10 million they gave Obama for his presidential library.
US-based airline companies plus FAA are also not in the best shape, especially ethically speaking.
Sounds like a hard landing; nothing to do with the quality of Boeing’s product.
Disclaimer - spent 34 years in Boeing aircraft with no complaints; the last 5 in the left seat of the 757-200 (a little less than 3,000 hours).
No one is discounting Boeing’s legacy...but the entire US Aviation industry in general is in a sorry state at this particular juncture in time. Too much corruption.
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