DL blows tire, returns to JFK

[EXLEFTSEAT]

Forbes.com just reports : "Delta Air Lines Flight 141 was bound for Salt Lake City on Tuesday afternoon when it blew out a tire on takeoff from the Queens airport. Passengers say they heard a loud explosion and started praying."
Seems everyone is o.k. Like the dramatic reporting style as usual..............

[maxho]

Actually a passenger from that flight was sitting next to me on DL73 later same night and said exactly that, loud explosion and people praying.

[Pinkman]

Unsurprising

Given that Salt Lake City is the spiritual home of the Mormon community I suppose it's to be expected that a number of them would be on the flight and would pray loudly and continuously!

[adverse-bump]

So, an a/c takes off, blows one of its 10 tires then lands.

Ill call the BBC!

[sevenstrokeroll]

as america is quite free in terms of religion, I imagine all faiths were praying,not just mormons

by the way, the 737 800 can't dump fuel...published article are wrong

[Roadtrip]

Hard to believe that a thoroughly researched news story written by professional "journalists" would be wrong about an aviation related subject.

Or could it be just another example of a hack story written on the back of a napkin using the MSU (make *hit up) method of standard hack journalism?

[baselb]

I've a related dumb question (this is Spotters' Cornet after all).

Why return after a blown tyre? If you have to land with a damaged tyre anyway, couldn't you land at the destination?

[nshahzad]

could be more than just a blown tire