Posted on 01/24/2024 5:37:55 AM PST by Red Badger
A Delta Boeing 757 nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill at take off
The flight was set to fly from Atlanta to Bogota when the tires fell off
It is the latest in a slew of terrifying incidents involving Boeing aircrafts
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A Delta Air Lines plane flying out of Atlanta lost its nose tire as it tried to take off on Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration has revealed.
The Boeing 757 was set to take off from Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Bogota, Colombia on Saturday when the nose wheel came off.
According to the FAA reported, the nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill as during the line up and wait to take off.
The Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 nose wheel incident is the latest in a slew of terrifying incidents involving Boeing aircrafts.
'The 75 on the runway just lost the nose tire,' said the pilot who was behind the Boeing 757, according to audio posted by VASAviation.
The Delta Pilot said, 'Thanks for that … sounds like we got a problem.'
'Yeah, we saw that tire roll off the runway to the south. Looks like it went off the runway, probably down the bank down there,' said the other pilot.
All 184 passengers on board and their bags were removed from the plane put on a replacement aircraft, reported WSB-TV.
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I had the same reaction!
This isn’t a fault of design or their tires would have been falling off for years. I think also that this is from maintenance. Did the airlines go cheap on mechanics?
So did Boeing go woke when it hired all the technicians to perform the necessary maintenance on their aircraft
A while back Boeing had to ditch a proposed assembly plane in Eastern NC because the available worker pool was not intelligent enough to make the cut.
That’s where the Marine Corps and Army bases are........................hmmmmmm...............
+1000%
“It is the latest in a slew of terrifying incidents involving Boeing aircrafts”
Sounds like maintenance not something systemic to Boeing.
Of course many incidents when they occur will happen with Boeing aircraft which make up almost half of the aircraft flying in the US.
Yesterday's anti-Boeing thread was calling missing non-structural Phillips head screws... bolts. Boeing has plenty of problems but the “publications” and "journalists" trying to take them down are using intentionally misleading jargon to leave a bad impression...
A Boeing 757 has a maximum take-off weight of 255,000 pounds. The tires that support this weight weigh approximately 70 pounds apiece and are inflated to over 200 psi. They handle almost unimaginable stress compared to a car or truck tire while being manufactured to be as light as possible.
The wheels are made out of an aluminum alloy which is an amazing material. But aluminum used in high stress applications does have a limited useful life span in this type of application. So yes, as you say, “tires blow all the time on jets”, and wheels assemblies fail as well. It is the nature of the beast.
The problems that DEI has caused are also notable. Those of us who were in the work force in almost any vocation for several decades saw many examples. The problem has been worse in large corporations and the government. Dismissing those who often correctly attribute failures to affirmative action and DEI as racists is not going to fly with those who have seen issues first hand.
Couple bolts here, couple nut there, pretty soon stuff falls off.
I didn’t read the article either, but the last 757 rolled out of the factory in October of 2004.
They are well built safe planes. Most life and hull losses were from hijackings and collisions. Two were hijacked on 9/11.
I understand and know it’s just a joke
When these things fail they fail spectacularly, but the systems are designed to handle failure..
This is why the 737 Max 8 crashes were so insane. Because they had been given flight certification for something that in certain models did not have redundancy. The system relied on a single sensor and if that sensor fed bad info well you end up with people dead.
This is why it was clear from the start someone committed fraud the instant that fact was known.
Airplane tires literally go from 0 (virtually) to 200mph the instant the plane touches the ground. They have a life expectancy on the high end or 400
Landings, 150 or so on the low end. Given there are
45000 commercial flights per day in the uS. And not anywhere near that many physical aircraft it doesn’t take a genius to realize these miracles or engineering fail frequently
I agree about the other article about the missing screws as well. They were screws not bolts, they weren’t structural and yet the news couldn’t even report that fact right.
I can understand the lay person having some concern that those screws were missing, but to play it up in the media as some sort of threat to passenger safety is comical
On the tire thing, yes something failed on one or the wheel supports, it happens the stresses on these parts as you pointed out are incredible, however even if this plane had taken off it would have almost certainly landed safely at its destination…. Hell the fact the plane taxied back to the terminal should be a big clue that the failure was not to the structural underpinnings of the landing gear but something related to the mounting support parts of the wheel itself
Here is a video from a plane having such a failure happen to its underwing tires happen… as you can see it fails spectacularly, but lands completely safely.
I”m wondering now about intentional damage/sabotage from someone/somewhere else. What airlines are up for very big competitions for new planes? Or just plain old terrorists.
Boeing aircrafts what semi-literate idiot wrote this pearl?
This is just plain asinine reporting. The media is in a create a crisis mentality.
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The systemic problem with safety is, to get really effective at it, you have to have paid the price for not being safe… hard and costly lessons… then when you get good at it, over time, the high cost lessons fade into memory and complacency happens, beam counters push to cut costs, the older folks who lived through the high cost retire and die and you slip down the slope until another high cost lesson is learned.
This is the nature of man, when it comes to anything.
About half of all commercial airplanes flying are Boeing. That is a lot of airplanes of many different 7X7 models total, all with exceptional safety records..
Don't drink the media hype kool-aid about this.
No, I don’t think so. I think there’s actually less accidents, but today they’re just more widely published and talked about/discussed.
get a wrist rocket
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