EY plane stuck on runway at MEL for 14 hours after tyres burst

[33kft]

An Etihad Airways plane was stuck on the runway at Melbourne Airport for almost 14 hours after it was forced to abandon a takeoff on Sunday night and its tyres reportedly “burst”.
It meant only one runway was available for operations, causing flight disruptions during what is expected to be Melbourne Airport’s busiest summer for international travel ever.

Etihad confirmed its 6.15pm flight bound for Abu Dhabi rejected takeoff for “technical reasons”, while the airport confirmed the aircraft’s tyres were damaged, meaning the Boeing 787-9 could not be towed off the runway until repairs were done on location.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/flight-disruptions-at-melbourne-airport-as-etihad-airways-aircraft-stuck-on-runway-after-tyres-burst/news-story/d7e27937cf61ba8335e161dc06fc54e8

 

[FlyingFiona]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

 

[Gremlin]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

...and mirrors?!?

 

[33kft]

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

Brilliant. That's one of the best correlation vs causation fallacy examples I've seen lately... Might need to file that one for the next time I need to give an example of a failure in basic reasoning

It reminds me of my favourite electrical root cause for failure - letting the magic smoke out.

 

[Quickstatus]

Daily Fail fails again

 

[SeatBackForward]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

And that's why smoking is no longer allowed on flights!

 

[p--and--t]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

Journalism at its finest. If you don't have the facts just make something up.

 

[OATEK]

What about the version (second-hand) in the OZ:

The Herald Sun reports two of the plane’s wheels exploded, and that the flight was forced to “slam on the emergency brakes” just moments before it attempted to take to the air.

Could turn out to be a little back to front.

 

[Saab34]

The standard of writing these days is just terrible.

‘Slam on the brakes’

The other week I read something in Europe where an aircraft ‘slapped’ the runway.

 

[OATEK]

What about the version (second-hand) in the OZ:

The Herald Sun reports two of the plane’s wheels exploded, and that the flight was forced to “slam on the emergency brakes” just moments before it attempted to take to the air.

Could turn out to be a little back to front.

The Australian seems to have substantially revised their earlier take:

It’s understood the 787 with 289 people on-board was accelerating along runway 34 when the flight crew rejected the takeoff at high speed.

As the aircraft came to a screeching halt on the runway, emergency services leapt into action, spraying the smoking landing gear which is thought to have caused two tyres to burst.

 

[SCM]

That's a bit off, so they aborted takeoff because two tires just randomly burst?

 

[Saab34]

As the aircraft came to a screeching halt on the runway, emergency services leapt into action, spraying the smoking landing gear which is thought to have caused two tyres to burst.

Again, terrible writing from The Australian.

We don’t need the screeching bit, and the leapt bit either.

 

[mannej]

That's a bit off, so they aborted takeoff because two tires just randomly burst?

I don’t read it that way. They would have popped as a result of the amount of heat generated by the brakes.

 

[SCM]

I don’t read it that way. They would have popped as a result of the amount of heat generated by the brakes.

But why would they be breaking on take-off? So I mean, the real actual reason for the aborted take-off is still unknown?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

But why would they be breaking on take-off? So I mean, the real actual reason for the aborted take-off is still unknown?

Yes, other than a ‘technical issue’. Obviously something which warranted the pilots to abort the takeoff.

Given the speed of the aircraft at that point, the resulting forces led to the deflation of one or more tyres.

 

[elanshin]

But why would they be breaking on take-off? So I mean, the real actual reason for the aborted take-off is still unknown?

Rejected take off means braking especially if they're at speed which would often be maximum braking.

As for aborting, can be for any reason that the pilots didn't like for safety and we don't know the reason as its not reported.

 

[Stone]

This headline was the best (linked article now has it corrected to aborted takeoff)

 

[kamchatsky]

I am so glad that we arrived at MEL from Japan before flying off to SYD yesterday morning. Would have been chaos today.

 

[Saab34]

If only they got their backsides in order and built another parallel runway years ago. For the size of Melbourne these days, it’s third world planning, they should have a second long comparable runway in operation long ago. Don’t even get me started on that Airport Train (what is it now, 2050?).

The parking of International widebodies on remote stands also highlights the terrible forward planning. We run third world airports here.

 

[jrfsp]

Luckily the wind at the time allowed for departures to use 27 without much issue, just the two-night flights to DXB and DOH stopped in PER for fuel.