a main gear tire is much less likely to do so.
But, in my experience, it has done - on a B747.
The weather at Frankfurt was windy. The engines were windmilling. No one noticed -except for an alert ground engineer - that there was an odd shadow rotating with the fan. He stopped it rotating and, to cut a long boring story short, we were just outside vibration limits to go. Sorry guys.
In the past, I've had a bit of a go at Frankfurt but this ground engineer was the only one of FE, pilot, Gnd Eng who noticed the damage.
