QF A380 blows tyres on landing at YSSY

[JamesW]

Originally Posted by Greg McDonald

The control tower said on the radio that all the tyres were blown.

Weird, I was listening to the live ATC stream all night which streams on both W&E tower, and the only thing mentioned was about 2 wheels being busted and the axel being stuck in the runway surface. Might be time to bust out the LiveATC archive, and sent it over to NEWS.COM.AU

[Philip Argy]

One report this morning says it was the nose gear axle that broke - that would explain the delayed tow. I had assumed a main gear tyre burst until I saw that report.

Come on you guys on the spot - how about some good quality facts so we don't have to speculate or rely on the media!

[Nigel C]

Philip,
These 'guys on the spot' you're referring to typically aren't actually on the spot i.e. speaking with the people under the aircraft, looking at the aircraft as an engineer, looking at the runway etc, but rather commentate from the other side of the fence or receive and commentate second, third and fourth hand reports from the aprons or from the odd remark made on ATC radio. Therefore the accuracy of many 'facts' must come into question and in many cases is as good as reading about it in the media in the first place.

Further, the media most probably trawl these message boards for the 'latest info' on these incidents, hoping to get the scoop. Or perhaps people have the Telegraph on speed dial waiting for news to break. For example, Greg's post had a quote from www.news.com.au...

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."

Which looks quite similar to this from the lead post in this thread...

Originally Posted by 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.

Coincidence?

[Paul f.]

Reports of it had brake problems in Singapore.

[Philip Argy]

My reference to 'guys on the spot' was exactly what I meant - people on this board who were on the scene and know what happened and are free to tell us.

[Nigel C]

Judging by the lack of intimate 'facts', I'm guessing there weren't any 'guys on the spot'. We'll have to wait for the official report.

[Kurt A]

Originally Posted by NeilP

A Qantas A330 and China Airlines A330 just departed off 07. Gonna be a noisy half hour or so over Bexley...?

Rwy 25 ?

[Laurent Sanhard]

the only two scenarios I can think of , is 1: the nose wheel was'nt line up properply on landing (happened at LHR with a QFA380 a while back), or the front wheels locked up on landing, front brake probs

can't see how a heavy landing would blow both front tyres

just stating the obvious, in my opinion

[NeilP]

Originally Posted by Kurt Ams

Rwy 25 ?

That's the one

[Jayden Laing]

Runway 25 was in operation for takeoff's of the heavies & landings. EK413 the TG A340-600 both took off from 25 last night. Judging by the photograph in today's Daily Telegraph, it looked it was main gear problem Laurent.