Atlas 742 in AMS today.
 

Anyone know what had happened to the Atlas 742 at AMS today around 1630z?
It sure blocked rwy 06 for about 3 hours. I took a pic of it when they offloaded it on the rwy at 1930z

:ugh:

Source: www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl

According to the Dutch aviation news site luchtvaartnieuws suffered the Atlas 747 from blown tyres on departure from runway 36L. The flight crew elected to return to Schiphol and landed on runway 06 during the landing more tyres burst and the aircraft was stranded on the runway. Both runway 36L and 06 are closed for the time. Runway 36L is closed because the Atlas 747 took out some of the lights on departure. Runway 06 is closed due to the aircraft blocking the runway and due to surface damage to the runway.

The incident didn't result in any delays on the airport because the airport was able to use other runways for arriving and departing air traffic.

Blew 2 maintires by take off and damaged rwy 36L rwy and lights...dumped lots of fuel and returned to ams...landed at 1536Z on rwy 06 and blew the remaining of his maintires.....a/c offloaded on the rwy in order to reweight all the pallets and trying to put new tires on the a/c....at this stage the a/c is still blocking the rwy which will be closed tmrw the most of the day(if not the whole day) in order to repair the heavily damaged rwy..a/c N516MC...a/c had to return as flaps r damaged as well which resulted in steering problems:O

I know everyone would say we should await for an investigation report, but it sounds like an overweight takeoff or incorrect performace calculations? MK case @Canada sounds a bell...

Tyre pressures,runway F.O.D.There are many possibilities,luckily no one was hurt.

Which Lights?
 

If you took off long on 36L, you would damage perhaps the AL for RW 18R,
so which lights were hit causing 36L to be closed? AL or edge lights?

It was busy on the ground there yesterday evening but I have to say the Schipol ATC controllers were on top form and handled the disruption superbly.

Well done guys :ok:

http://www.jimmylam.downloaden.com/atlas.html

here u can see the 747 taking off U can hear 2 bangs of blowing tires....;)

Well here's a nice close up pic of what happened.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1077065/L/

just for the info....movie was removed by order of the dutch caa and atlas pending investigation:ugh: