Los Angeles: Plane blows tires upon landing

Passengers first suffered an almost one-hour-long delay in Atlanta on account of inclement climate, in accordance with flight tracker FlightAware.

The aircraft landed in California shortly after 1pm.

The airline acknowledged that the aircraft ‘got here to relaxation on the taxi method after a doable challenge with a few of its tires’.

Passengers on the flight described the second in far more scary phrases.

‘Hastily POW BAM proper touchdown gear fumbles the bag and we pop 2 tires on the proper,’ one passenger stated on Twitter.

‘Everybody freaks out and we skidded to a cease someplace between hell and a runway,’ the passenger stated.

Passengers had been delayed one other hour on the runway because the aircraft was inspected by firefighters and a upkeep crew. Buses had been ultimately despatched to return the passengers to the airport.

Regardless of the chaos, no one on board was harm. The airport was pressured to close down two runways for a number of hours regardless of how busy it was, throughout the ordeal.

The incident comes whereas main airways are struggling to maintain up with elevated air journey after pandemic lockdowns. Staffing shortages have prompted a serious improve in flight delays and cancellations throughout the globe.

On July 11, almost 10,000 passengers had been stranded at London’s Heathrow Airport after 61 flights had been cancelled in a single night.

Touchdown points have additionally plagued different airways not too long ago. A Spirit Airways flight in July from Tampa to Atlanta caught hearth after touchdown after considered one of its breaks overheated.

First responders on the airport shortly extinguished the blaze and no one was injured, the airport stated.

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