Air Malta emergency at GLA

[HotDog]

Shadow, how many burst tyre or thread separation incidents have you actually, personally experienced whilst operating an aircraft? We lost a Convair 880 into Hong Kong harbour when a nosewheel thread seperated during the takoff run. We stopped using re-threads on nosewheels after that. If you want to see some damaged tyres without brake assistance, have a look at the following:









None of the above tre failures were caused by inadvertent brake application.