'Flying replacement tyres out from the UK on the next available aircraft was the quickest solution available.'
How on earth can that be true? Surely one of the benefits of using a modern airliner is the ready availability of such spares world-wide....
Mind you, didn't something similar happen to a TriStar in the early 1980s at Dulles? Needed a tyre replacement, plenty available locally but MoD refused and sent a Herc with the tyre....