AA767 at Rio de Janeiro Blows Tires, Haters-Gonna-Hates to Gate

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I had my first flat tire on landing this week. Rear left main tire blew. Didn't feel much on landing, but once the nose came down and we started slowing....it was really obvious that we blew a tire. The whole plane shook, the left side pulled, felt like we had a dragging brake. Directional control got very difficult as we tried to take the high speed, so we stopped on the side of the runway. We were worried about the rubber coming off completely and doing additional damage to the strut/brake lines/gear doors, so we shut it down right there and closed the runway for a few hours.

We're not exactly overpowered, but I highly doubt we would have been able to taxi to the ramp without *significant* power levels.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that the crew "didn't know" about the tire in this case.
 
NewYorkophile said:
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I had my first flat tire on landing this week. Rear left main tire blew. Didn't feel much on landing, but once the nose came down and we started slowing....it was really obvious that we blew a tire. The whole plane shook, the left side pulled, felt like we had a dragging brake. Directional control got very difficult as we tried to take the high speed, so we stopped on the side of the runway. We were worried about the rubber coming off completely and doing additional damage to the strut/brake lines/gear doors, so we shut it down right there and closed the runway for a few hours.

We're not exactly overpowered, but I highly doubt we would have been able to taxi to the ramp without *significant* power levels.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that the crew "didn't know" about the tire in this case.
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I had my first flat as well last week. The plane would not move. Not sure what was going through the AA crews' mind.

In retrospect, I've also seen a Baron turn off the runway with a flat nose tire, and his plane would not budge once it stopped on the taxiway.
 
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