matkat - 8 Nov 88 as I've now discovered.
Good old Big George Smith - a real Leuchars character! If one of his lads had advised me or my crew of such a problem, I'd certainly have believed him without the slightest hesitation.
Sorry to hear that the crew behaved in such a deplorable way at the subsequent BoI - did the truth ever come out?
Neptunus, the cause of the hot Caravelle brakes was certainly different, I agree. But had a draggy brake unit caused the Delta tyre failure, then an adjacent tyre might have been on the point of failure and could have cooked up and burst 20 min into the flight as you rightly state.
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