QF A380 blows tyres on landing at YSSY

[Jayden Laing]

A Qantas A380 has just landed at Sydney and blown 2 tyres on landing. The noise from the blowout was amazing! There were sparks, flames and smoke everywhere. There is a bad smell of burning rubber coming from the plane which is on the runway at the moment surrounded by the emergency vehicles.

[Maikha Ly]

I'm listening to it all now on the scanner.

[Dan Hammond]

Just wait till this one hits the news reels. Anyone think we might see in a news report a passenger fearing for their life story?

[phil.l]

Rego?

[Jayden Laing]

No rego as of yet Phil. I am working over at Virgin Blue Terminal & it was a bit far to catch it. Still currently on the runway just in front of the Tower with fire trucks around it. There appears to be what looks like a couple of news helicopters hovering around it so no doubt it will definately be on the news tomorrow.

[Zac M]

No A380s have been registered on ACARS since QF11 departed.

[Jayden Laing]

Don't know possibly. It is Qantas however and they tried to get some footage of the Qantas 747 landing in rain yesterday.

[Radi K]

Atis atis yssy w 310913
+ apch:
+ rwy: 16l
+ opr info:
Wind: 190/15.
Xw max 12 kts
vis: Gt 10km
cld: Few020
tmp: 20
qnh: 1018

rwy 16r/34l not avbl
due disabled acft
from 03 310934 to 03 311130 est

[Greg McDonald]

Originally Posted by Dan Hammond

Just wait till this one hits the news reels. Anyone think we might see in a news report a passenger fearing for their life story?

Ask and ye shall receive.....

From NEWS.COM.AU

FLAMES shot out from the undercarriage of a Qantas A380 last night when two tyres burst as it landed at Sydney Airport - the second emergency involving the airline in the past 48 hours.

A worker at the airport told The Daily Telegraph he heard a huge roar and then flames coming from under plane.

"I thought there was a serious crash, there were sparks and flames shooting out everywhere," he said.

"And the noise was deafening, like cannons going off.

"I really thought something catastrophic had happened."

The 241 passengers on board QF32 from London via Singapore were stranded on the tarmac for nearly two hours before being bussed to the terminal to meet anxious relatives.

"We saw from the observation deck and when it touched down the left wheel burst into flames and there were sparks and fire from the left-hand side and there was black smoke and when it went down the runway it stopped," said Mr Wayne Morris, 58, who was waiting for his wife Maria to arrive from a London holiday.
" The control tower said on the radio that all the tyres were blown.

"I was very concerned because you don't expect to see flames from a plane and after the engineers went on strike it makes you ask the question about safety."

The incident comes after a Singapore-bound Qantas 747 was forced to return to Sydney Airport on Tuesday evening due to engine troubles.

Passengers on last night's flight said the landing seemed routine at first.

Ramy Filo, 48 said it was only after the the landing that she realised that the situation could have been dangerous.

"At the time it happened I was not scared but in hindsight you realise anything could of happened," she said.

Michelle Coffman, 39, from London, was travelling with her two daughters to vist her parents in Sydney.

"It seemed like a safe landing then we heard the tyres went down to the metal," she said.

[Michael Rychter]

Originally Posted by Grahame Hutchison

... so it may have started to turn off the runway but not quite made it (possibly the Alpha 4 Rapid).

One of my fellow workmates who witnessed it as well said that he thought the A380 landed quite heavily. I presume that this could have been the reason for the blowout??

So, the inference is that he rolled off onto a taxiway a bit too quickly???