Originally Posted by
latetonite
On a more serious note, I would get the thing on the ground as soon as possible.
Regardless of the state of the tires, I land anyway. You will figure that out after landing.
All this based on a real experience where on an A300 I burned away a tire during take off, resulting in a immediate , overweight landing and a complete bogey replacement later.
The discussion about it was held in a hotel with a coffee, not in a crippled burning plane in the sky at night.
But was there any evidence of having been a fire after you landed? Depending on the airport you were at, you could have easily been well above max landing weight with a serious lack of braking due to blown tires and hoping that reverse thrust would stop you prior to the end of a not so long runway, perhaps even wet runway.
I suspect in the case you experienced, you were fortunate to have a nice long runway.