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Alaska Airlines flight diverted after blown tire
This afternoon an Alaska Airlines plane was diverted to Honolulu for an emergency landing. (www.khon2.com) المزيد...Alaska Airlines 843 -- http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA843/history/20130521/1710Z/KSEA/PHNL
Why did they continue the flight, if it happened on takeoff? Too heavy to turn around?
What's the difference between landing on a bum tire in seattle and landing on a bum tire in honolulu?
Overweight with Fuel probably... Again, planes do not need wheels to fly once airborne. He had to burn fuel off, why hold over SEA while he burns off fuel. They may not have maintenance in SEA, but they do in HNL. If they had come back to SEA they would have had to send in company maintenance to fix the plane while it is stuck on the runway and being closed.... Continue flight, and make an Emergency Landing. have maintenance ready to change the Blown wheel and its mating wheel on the runway, then taxi it to the gate.
The one that I worked (Maintenance Control), we knew about 5 minutes after take off. We had the station setup with parts, tooling, escort all staged over an hour before the plane landed... Minimize repair time, runway closures (busy airports hate closing a runway). We had the runway fowled for not more than 30 minutes and that was with unloading the Passengers. The plane almost been the passengers on the bus to the terminal :)
The one that I worked (Maintenance Control), we knew about 5 minutes after take off. We had the station setup with parts, tooling, escort all staged over an hour before the plane landed... Minimize repair time, runway closures (busy airports hate closing a runway). We had the runway fowled for not more than 30 minutes and that was with unloading the Passengers. The plane almost been the passengers on the bus to the terminal :)
random questions.....what about the extra stress on the hubs? do you all just change the whole assembly?
Once they land on the flat, the hub is toast... It will never fly again, but will join many other pieces of scrap. Just think the pilot might actually drink a coke that was quite literally the hub of the flat he just landed on. All jokes aside, the bearings probably survived, the rest of the wheel assembly is nothing more than scrap metal... Those wheel hubs are nothing more than an Aluminum Alloy. Without the protection of the rubber, the metal will not survive a concrete runway and be able to be useable ever again.
Correction to above statement: " and be able to be useable ever again" should be
" and NOT be able to be useable ever again". Sorry... The NOT changes the entire meaning. Sorry guys.
" and NOT be able to be useable ever again". Sorry... The NOT changes the entire meaning. Sorry guys.
You can take it either way. your "NOT" after metal covers them both.
They probably never knew they blew the tire until they were in the air, and parts of the tire were found and reported to the tower who forwarded it on to the company. I had one just this way with a CRJ-900. ATC called me (maintenance control) and advised us that we had a blow out on one of our planes flight number ****. I notifed the a/c and dispatch and I contacted the plane, he continued to his destination (where we already had maintenance in the first place). He declared and emergency and made a perfectly safe landing.
Not sure why this is news.... Must be very slow news today.