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Old 10th October 2000 | 16:12
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Back in the Sixties (?) a VC10 in Africa experienced heavy nosewheel vibration about 15 knots before V1. It was a night take off and some time previously a light aircraft had been stuck on the runway with a flat tyre. The owner changed the tyre and left the small car jack on the runway. The VC10 nosewheel ran over the jack - hence the vibration. The VC10 aborted with max braking.
Several of its tyres burst resulting in loss of 50% of total braking capability. It over-ran and ruptured a wing tank. Many were killed in the resulting conflagration.

The investigators discovered that several of the anti-skid systems had been wrongly wired up which caused some brakes to stay on when they should have momentarily released and vice verca with opposite sets of wheels.