Originally Posted by
sevenstrokeroll
did it occur to anyone that the tire ingested into the engine was from another plane? while I suppose a nose tire might find its way into the engines of a 757, a main gear tire is much less likely to do so.
On the DC9 we did worry about a blown tire getting ingested into an engine...for obvious reasons...but a 757?
I remember blowing a main gear tire at Vr on a 737-200 many yrs ago. As we rotated, there was a loud explosion & we could see from the cockpit, chunks of rubber flying past, ahead of the nose. After landing, there was no engine damage, but black tire marks down the rear fuselage & holes punched through the leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer. A high speed tire failure is extremely violent.