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A380 get squared off tire in mid flight

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  1. TheMayor

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    Holy crap!

    Never seen that before. I have been in a plane that popped a tire on landing and watched them change it on the tarmac/gate. Nothing like that though.

    I guess landing gear bays are not pressurized so a flat on take off could cause this.

    Great photo.
     
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    Ever had an empty plastic water bottle that was capped prior to descent? They look kinda funky once you get on the ground.
     
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    Yes, that's what tires look like when you suck the air out of them. The air leaked out on the way to altitude, but couldn't leak back in on the way back to earth. The pressure in the tire dropped to 3-4 psi at altitude, then the plane landed at Heathrow where the air pressure on the outside of the tire would be around 15 psi, while the psi inside remained low. That's a big differential so things tried to equalize, by the force of the higher outside psi collapsing the tire. Tires don't collapse evenly all the way around, they dimple like the Corvette tire. If all the tires on the plane had experienced the same thing at one time, then the landing would have looked like Andrea de Cesaris locking them up into turn one.
     
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