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    Flat Tire Down Under

    What: A Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd. Boeing 737-700 en route from Sydney Nova Scotia to Coolangatta Australia
    Where: Brisbane Airport Queensland
    When: 2:30 p.m. local time May 26
    Who: 109 passengers
    Why: After departing, Airport crew at Sydney found parts of the Boeing’s nose wheel tire. The plane made a safe emergency landing in Brisbane. Passengers debarked; and the tire was replaced.

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    Colgan/Bombardier – Another Near Tragedy?


    What: Colgan Airlines/ Continental Q400 Bombardier turbo-prop en route from Newark to Buffalo
    Where: Buffalo International Airport
    When: May 12 6 pm
    Who: 73 on board
    Why: On landing, part of the wheel assembly disengaged. A passenger video shows the tire assembly coming to pieces on landing. One tire of the two-tire assembly comes off; the remaining tire sustains the landing.

    George’s Point of View

    Notably, the wheel assembly had been recently serviced, but whether or not the problem lies with Colgan maintenance or the established fact that the tire assembly on the Q400 Bombardier is well renowned for problems is as yet undetermined. At the end of the tape above, take a look at the shot of the 2007 Denmark incident where the Q400 Bombardier’s right landing gear collapsed. There were 8 such landing gear failures in the Q400 Bombardier in 2007 alone.

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    Fokker 100 Loses Tire, Lands Safely in Montenegro


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    What: Montenegro Airlines Fokker 100 en route from Podgorica Montenegro to Rome
    Where: emergency landing in Podgorica Montenegro
    When: Friday Feb 27
    Who: 33 people on board (28 passengers 5 crew)
    Why: The plane took off for Rome at 8:55 a.m but when a wheel on the left side of the main undercarriage fell off, the crew dumped fuel in the Adriatic sea (or Skadarsko Lake), and returned to Podgorica thirty minutes later for a safe landing.

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    Loaded Fokker Loses Tires on Nigerian Runway


    What: Kano bound aircraft, a Fokker 100 with tail number 5NCEO from Lagos
    Where: taxiing on the Murtala Mohammed Airport runway
    When: 8.30pm
    Who: carrying about 108 passengers
    Why: The plane lost two rear tires while taxiing and derailed to the surrounding field. The airline refunded money to some of them while the others were ferried to their destination. Some affected passengers were accommodated in a hotel in Ikeja, and others were checked into Aero Contractors aircraft bound for Abuja.

    NCAA engineers were studying the plane

    The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has held a closed door meeting with the management of IRS Airlines over the incident.

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    Air Canada/Air Georgian Blows Tires in Albany


    What: Air Canada 9 year old 19-seat Beechcraft 1900 turboprop en route from Toronto to Manchester, N.H.
    Where: Albany International Airport
    When: Thursday Jan 15 11 am
    Who: seven passengers and two crew members
    Why: The plane was landing because of a reported engine problem (an in-flight emergency when one of two turboprop engines experienced difficulty). The pilot noticed low oil pressure in the right engine; however, all four tires failed during an emergency landing at in New York. The plane landed on the main runway and stopped on four flat deflated tires at the intersection of two runways The Albany airport was closed for an hour after the landing.

    Note: Tickets were sold by Air Canada, but Air Georgian operated the flight. Air Georgian president Paul Mulrooney is unsure if there was ice on the plane’s brakes or if the pilot braked too heavily, causing the tires to blow out.

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    Delta Handles Double Emergency Landing


    What: Delta Air Lines MD88 flight DL1102 en route from Washington Dulles,DC to Atlanta,GA
    Where: diverted to Greenville-Spartanburg International Aiport for an emergency landing on runway 22.
    When: 5 p.m. Thursday.
    Who: 146 passengers and crew members
    Why: Initially the crew noticed smoke in the cockpit and was diverted to Greenville-Spartanburg. Additionally on landing, one of the right main gear tires blew. Passengers were evacuated onto the taxiway using slides.

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    Emergency Landing in Tulsa

    What: American Eagle regional jet bound for Chicago
    Where: Tulsa International Airport
    When: Dec 2 12:22 p.m
    Who: three crew members and 50 passengers including Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe
    Why: one of its tires–( right main gear tire separated) –during take off, and then the pilot was directed to enter a fuel burn-off flight pattern until it landed