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Old 27th Jul 2017, 17:56
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Agree

Originally Posted by JohnDixson
This link may assist:

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/...ts/AAR7709.pdf

It wasn't the tire.
Well said John. The tire had nothing to with the accident. A tire failure would probably have resulted in a ground resonance situation. A mechanical failure of a component was the cause. I worked in Penzance up until my retirement and this incident was constantly on my mind mainly because one of our aircraft had achieved 140,000 landings!!!
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