I'm so happy you did a show on the fly as you were there to witness this...I saw it live and thanks for the video so I can show my mum and dad (big plane spotters).
Great coverage as always, Kevin!! Thank goodness you were close by. I'm glad everything was in place for the flight's arrival at LAX. Btw, you looked fine on camera!! 👍👍
This happened twice during my 26 years of working at Anchorage Int’l Airport. Both were 747s with wheel bearing failure. The danger is those on the ground. It’s not a big deal for the plane to be missing a wheel. I recovered one of those 747 wheels. They are darn heavy and it took 3 or 4 of us to load it in to a pickup truck.
Can't wait for the comments on Boeing, but I'd be willing to bet this is more of a maintenance issue than an aircraft issue. But, you know so many will make an unwarranted comment.
Really great shots of this, also really nice that it's being filmed by someone who is knowledgeable and not someone screaming that the everyone's gonna die and it's the end of the world lmao
Really proud of you, Kevin. What an amazing job you did for your community here on AVL. So glad it all ended safely. Impressed with everyone's professionalism.
Glad the pilots got the plane down safely. Kudos to the pilots! That being said, I've always found landing gear related emergency landings quite fascinating.
Great job Kevin. As usual. I know United is trying to upgrade their fleet....but a lot of these planes are really old that United continues to use. I am not surprised this has happened. A lot of these planes are solid even if old. But this a concern. Thank God only a tire.
At 7:45 into video, what appears to be a "remove before flight" flag appears to be shown in the left main gear wheel well. Think it should not be there! ®
It's unlikely to be a maintenance issue. The wheel hub fractured, so possibly a manufacturing fault. The wheel hub retaining nut was still attached to the axle.
I SAW THE CARS THE WHEEL LANDED ON FROM PHOTO PERSPECTIVE IT APPEARED MAINLY. HOOD AND WINDSHEILD DAMAGE BUT FAIR TO SAY THEY WOULD BE. WRITEOFFS GIVEN IMPACT FORCE ETC ETC. MASSIVE IMPACT FORCE
I'm sure the FAA has already requested the maintenance logs as the most likely culprit would be that the plane had its tires replaced recently which I suspect would involved removing all the wheels and replacing them with a different set with new tires. I suppose they could have replaced the tires on the wheels that were on the plane but that would seemingly take a lot more time and downtime is frowned upon. Landing with one of 6 wheels missing on the left side landing gear should not, in itself, by cause for too much concern, but if someone failed to install one wheel properly there is the chance that other wheels might also come off. Safe to say this particular plane will be grounded for a while.
The wheel hub fractured. The retaining nut was still installed, but the tyre came off. No maintenance error. Could be a wheel hub manufacturing issue.... or someone did an awfully heavy landing recently 😆
@@ImperrfectStranger Heavy landing would be surprising for an inboard wheel, but not out of the question. An outboard wheel would be more likely -- a hard flat landing would distribute the force fairly equally, but if one wing was lower the outboard wheels would take the brunt of the force.
I have good questions. Everyone on the plane and on the ground were ok the priority. So for the passengers and crew united operations had to implement a plan after safely landed at LAX, new crew new plane (assuming it was taken out of service) what about the passengers and cargo
Hello Kevin, how life is going ? Standing up all day long ! How do you manage ? Are you sure you do not want a comfortable seat ? The best. Nicolas from Paris
This is not Boeings fault.Boeing does not make the tires, wheels or landing gear. Third party manufactures make them. Boeing only makes the air frame, only the fuselage. Nothing more. The wheel did not fall off do to lack of maintenance or neglect. If you look at the official photos you will see that the wheel separated from a manufacture defect.
Looks like bolts were still on landing gear wheel hub and somehow the rim broke off. May be a rim defect or damage that caused it to break off. Thankfully no one was injured.
Sydney Australia had an issue as well with a UA 777 was one of the rear wheels smoking during take off had to emergency land last week. BREAKING United 777-300ER EMERGENCY LANDING at Sydney Airport March 11, 2024 Monday, March 11, 2024, United's regularly scheduled UA830 777-300ER service from Sydney to San Francisco returned to the airport after a little under an hour of flying time. Upon arrival back into Sydney, the aircraft was met with an army of fire crew and police. On approach, the landing gear compartment doors could be seen wide open, as well as smoke coming from one of the tires on the right-hand side of the aircraft. Upon re-watching my footage, I noticed that on takeoff, the tire could already be seen smoking. It would appear that the crew didn't receive any warnings until well into the cruise, despite the issue being present at takeoff. United has had a tough run of it lately, with all of the following incidents happening in the past week: a 777-200 bound for Osaka lost one of its wheels on takeoff, a 737max skidded off the runway in Houston, a 737-900 had flames shooting out of its engines after ingesting bubble wrap, an A320 made an emergency landing in Los Angeles after a hydraulic failure and news of a 737max landing earlier in the year at Newark with locked rudder pedals. I hate to say it, but I wonder what will be next for UA. I get that a lot of this is out of their hands, but they are responsible for the planes they fly.
Hace poco un aerobus A320 o A321de LATAM aterrizó también con una rueda menos del tren principal. Pasando a otra cosa, ésta semana le han pasado de todo a la empresa y aerolínea UNITED con sus aviones.
This is a maintenance fail, not Boeing. Someone forgot to tighten the lug nuts. I'm surprised the wheel didn't do more damage. A 30-40kg body doing 200kmh has a lot of energy. I would have expected more than a dented car.
