re: easy to identify a tyre burst :
Some years ago I was ferrying a a BAe 146 with a manufacturers test pilot in the RHS as my F/O .
On landing , both tyres on the RHS main gear blew as the aircraft had just left maintenance and the engineers had connected the anti skid valves the wrong way round .
It was both difficult to keep it on the runway and ascertain what was going on .
Neither the test pilot nor I had any idea what really happened until we were off the runway and on the taxiway .The tower advised they had heard bangs and Fire 1 confirmed the tyre bursts .
In a larger jet on the take off roll , very difficult to ascertain with precision that a tyre has burst.