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United Airlines Boeing 737 Loses Tire While Taking Off From Denver (simpleflying.com)

submitted 2 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/aviation@lemmy.zip

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The United Airlines aircraft has remained on the ground in Seattle since the incident on August 24.

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everything on a plane has a prescribed maintenance and inspection interval. They're not letting them "shred themselves to death", a tire blow out at the wrong time (when dealing with another emergency, or from leaving shrapnel on the runway, etc) could kill a plane full of people.