RE: Air 2000 ‘holy’ flight!

The Pilot was unaware of the incident until the guy alerted him. I found it funny that he waited until the seat-belt sign was off!

I do think the press over did it a bit. Apparently some tread came lose from the tyre now and it would seem realistic that it took a panel out rather then making a puncture hole or ripping a spoiler off. The AMM spokesman did say it was a spoiler though.

If the tyre did explode surely the flight deck would be alerted to a tyre pressure situation—-yes, the lack of it! Ahhh yes, and if it was a spoiler that was missing then yes…what about the hydraulics…
I don’t think it was as serious as the papers described it and the only reason the cpt returned to SFD was because he didnt fancy making a pond crossing with whatever type of injury the aircraft had recieved!

Lovely touch ‘The Mail’, keep it up!

Regards

Ben