[Jamestown1630]

How do you land with a missing wheel and the passengers not even realizing it? How many wheels do they have?

(I’ve never flown.)

[chaosagent]

14

6 + 6 + 2

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The article said that each wing wheel truck has six tyres. Redundant design. Apparently five is plenty.

I worked with a guy who did four years in the Air Force. One night in Cambodia he serviced a brake assembly on a B-52 and left out a component. The brake locked. He was court-martialed. He and his supervisor lied, testifying that the supervisor was holding the flashlight while he was following the tech order. In fact, he was going from from memory and playing it by ear.

He was acquitted.

[Carl Vehse]

Jamestown1630: "How do you land with a missing wheel and the passengers not even realizing it? How many wheels do they have?

The NYPost states: "Every A350-1000 model features two main landing gear units, each with six wheels, making a total of 12 main wheels plus two in the front for the nose gear."

So the plane still had 93% of their wheels to land on.

[Organic Panic]

Two wheels can be totally shredded and the plane will be fine. Redundancy is designed in to every part of passenger aircraft.