Evidently there are a lot of young aviators contributing to this thread. And I wonder if the operative that serviced that B727's tyre with air in 1986 had ever read the following accident report. It was still fresh in aviation circles when I started flying:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_306
And it has figured here (on AH&N) in 2010:
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ml#post5710327