The television media had reported (and shown) a long line of responding fire / rescue trucks that was waiting for the aircraft's arrival. The line of trucks were actually over 1/2 of a mile long! . . Wasn't this "overkill' for an incident as simple as a single blown tire?
(My personal experience has proven that casualties from such incidents, have more to do with induced heart attack's occurring to individual pax's prone to excitement from all of the fuss.)
Last edited by L-38; 4th Sep 2008 at 19:03.