Missing 737 NSW wheel
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Missing 737 NSW wheel
A Ryanair B737 landed in Treviso Italy with a missing wheel (left) of the Nose Landign gear. any picture about?:
Don't the pilot get missing the tire pressure information in this case?
Apparently the Ct. did'n inform anybody and the ground people found out that one tire wasn't there.
Don't the pilot get missing the tire pressure information in this case?
Apparently the Ct. did'n inform anybody and the ground people found out that one tire wasn't there.
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Apparently the Ct. did'n inform anybody and the ground people found out that one tire wasn't there.
I believe a Flight West F28 lost a main wheel on landing at Norfolk Island some years back, and the first the crew knew, was when they saw the offending wheel overtake them during the landing roll!
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We lost a main wheel during T/O at the old Taipei airport on a CV880 and didn't know about it untill told by the arrival engineer on the ground at Kai Tak.
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Tire Pressure Indicators are optional on the 737. I don't think Ryanair has them at all, so you wouldn't know about it untill you do your walk-around or until the ground crew tell you.
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737 and most likely most other aircraft don't have cockpit indications on missing tires or other outside parts. it's usually the ground crew who sees it first. i once taxied over a nail with one of the front wheels. darn thing was invisible just below the tire on outside check and the air went out slowly. when we wanted to push the ground guys noticed a flat tire. but what appeared to be the flat one actually was the good one who had to hold all the weight while his tire-buddy was just "hanging around"...
As a young lad, I was pax in a British Airtours 707 that lost a nosewheel on landing in Dubrovnik.
Other pax not sure whether to laugh or scream as it bounced off into the bondu as we rolled out
Other pax not sure whether to laugh or scream as it bounced off into the bondu as we rolled out
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This type of failure is typically related to a failed inboard wheel bearing. The overheat of the bearing can cause heat damage (overtempered martensites) to the 300M steel of the piston/axle. This results in a highly brittle area with poor mechanical properties that would be susceptible to cracking.
This would have very little to do with the age of the landing gear - the initiating factor would be an overtorqued wheel nut, incorrectly installed wheel or damaged wheel bearing.
This would have very little to do with the age of the landing gear - the initiating factor would be an overtorqued wheel nut, incorrectly installed wheel or damaged wheel bearing.
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Probably happened as a result of incorrect torque, metal fatigue or perhaps the final result of too many high-speed turns while taxying.
Your probably one of these Muppet's that exits at 10 knots and screws up the next guy.
