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6. Blown tires are not a great rarity, but because of redundancy, passengers seldom know.

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 09:04 PM

Mar 2014

FOD (foreign object damage) is the most common cause.

A blown tire should not cause the nose gear to collapse.

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US Airways plane blows tire on takeoff in Philadelphia, passengers evacuated [View all] Cooley Hurd Mar 2014 OP

Good to see no one got hurt Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #1

evacuated in their pants. that looks awful leftyohiolib Mar 2014 #2

Blown tire? That looks like a collapsed nose gear. Scuba Mar 2014 #3

I'm assuming the tire blew, leading to the gear collapsing bigworld Mar 2014 #5

Glad it stayed on the runway. Easy to find. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2014 #4

+1! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2014 #7

Glad to hear everyone got out of it safely davidpdx Mar 2014 #8