It was reported last night that a MyTravel A320 flight from Tenerife burst 3 tyres on touchdown at Cardiff.
Passengers were led away from the aircraft on the runway. Whilst there were no reports of any injuries, passengers were said to be shaken.
Investigations are taking place both here and in Canada apparently (as this is a Skyservice aircraft).
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From a PAX point of view, I can imagine the above being quite scary. How serious is it however? How many tyres does an A320 have, because three going at once does seem a little unusual. From what I can gather, this incident on Sunday night/Monday morning by the way.
By: B777boy - 11th August 2003 at 01:29
A little Background info on the aircraft courtesy of Transport Canada:
Aircraft was imported to Canada in 95 from France (assuming airbus manufacturing plant?) Aircraft has been registered with Skyservice sine 96. No Previous owners recorded
By: EGNM - 11th August 2003 at 00:52
30 JUL
MyTravel Airways
CGTDK A320-231 338 Rtn to svc 29 Jul
Was damgd Bristol 16 Jun 03
CFRAA A320-230 1411 Rtn to Skyservice after covering
fr CGTDK
By: B777boy - 11th August 2003 at 00:24
do you ahve the registration # of the aircraft? cause it might of been an aircraft skt service was leasing from . . erg um i’m pretty sure it was an american aircraft but don’t hold me to that
By: EGNM - 11th August 2003 at 00:20
well you could say theirs just the channel in between – but then if you said that England could be called continental!
By: Pembo330 - 10th August 2003 at 18:37
Thats Wales(ish) Preston!:p
By: EGNM - 10th August 2003 at 15:30
Originally posted by Pembo330
Thats worrying – thanks wys. 🙂Just thinking out loud, isn’t this the second Skyservice incident in as many months in Wales as I’m sure one of them had a tail-scrape there, meaning Mytravel had to bring in another Skyservice A320 for cover.
i’m pritty sure that was in Bristol
By: steve rowell - 6th August 2003 at 01:55
Scary stuff
By: Pembo330 - 5th August 2003 at 15:48
Thats worrying – thanks wys. 🙂
Just thinking out loud, isn’t this the second Skyservice incident in as many months in Wales as I’m sure one of them had a tail-scrape there, meaning Mytravel had to bring in another Skyservice A320 for cover.
By: wysiwyg - 5th August 2003 at 14:40
There are 6 tyres on an A320, 4 mainwheels in 2 pairs and a pair of nosewheels (excluding Indian Airlines aircraft!). Every now and then one tyre might deflate but to get 50% of your wheels deflating means you are either seriously unlucky (unlikely) or there was some sort of problem (quite possibly pilot error). Overheated wheels could cause tyres to deflate but Cardiff is not that short (for a 320) so I wouldn’t have thought that was the problem (unless the brakes locked on by themselves). The data recorder will no doubt be inspected for vertical velocity on touchdown.
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