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Old 7th March 2009 | 20:15
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con-pilot

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There was another case of a main tire exploding the wheel well from overheating. It was in 1973 involving a Braniff 727. The aircraft was badly damaged and landed safely at Dulles Airport in Washington DC.

I have seen photos of the aircraft, but I cannot find any thing on line now about the incident.

Perhaps someone else will have better luck.

We did have ground distance charts in the 727 with waiting times, with the parking brake not set, that you had to follow if you had a long taxi, landing distance and estimated takeoff distances were including in the calculations. I can only remember a couple of times we were ever affected by the chart in the ten years I flew 727s, so it was not much of a limiting factor. If I remember correctly if you were parked for more than an hour there was no problem.
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