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Front tyre of Nok Air's Bangkok-Chiang Rai flight falls off while landing
The Nation

CHIANG RAI: -- A Nok Air's Boeing 738 plane lost its left front tyre while landing at the Mae Fah Luang Airport Thursday morning but the pilot managed to land it safely and no one was injured.

The DD 8715 flight, which took off from Don Mueang Airport at 8:15 am, was landing at the Chiang Rai airport at 9:15 when the accident occurred.

While landing, the plane's left front tyre fell off, causing the plane to tremble and the passengers said they heard a loud noise.

But the pilot managed to use the remaining right front tyre to safely land and he stopped the plane at nearly the end of the runway.

Mae Fah Luang Airport director Damrong Klongakkhara ordered an investigation of the cause of the accident.

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-- The Nation 2013-05-30

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A wheel fell off??? Or the tyre (practically impossible!)?

Suspect the tyre burst. Not at all uncommon but I guess it doesn't grab eyeballs quite like "fell off" does.

Probably the tyre burst on touch down, thus the loud bang and trembling of aircraft and needing full runway length to stop the plane.

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Believe one of the two front wheels did fall off, not sure where, presumable on landing - note the reference to a broken axle, pictures available on the interwebs clearly show one, single front wheel remaining and a slight listing. Could have been a lot worse.


Nok Air chief executive Patee Sarasin said the front left wheel of the nosewheel assembly fell off because one of the bolts came loose. "The pilot felt that the landing was not soft and later found out that an axle was broken," Mr Patee said.
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Boeing 738 ? A new model ....

//wait Google tells me it's a 737-800

Only 1 out of 12 737-800 is a new purchase. Delivered 1.02.2013

All other 738 are leased and mostly former Ryan Air and Air Europa aircrafts which had been replaced with newer aircrafts.

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A Nok Air's Boeing 738 plane lost its left front tyre

some images I've seen on the net of the incident would indicate is was the right front wheel that has gone missing.

I wonder if it was the tyre Miss April was servicing.

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That can happen when you let motorbike mechanics from Sisaket fix airplanes. Glad that the Tyre didn't hit my Pick-Up, as an airborne motorbike was already enough. Guess they sold some screws....w00t.gif

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Wheel, not tyre, other reports make clear. Another poor piece of English journailism -- but hey, in most countries you don't get anything like the abundance of English language reporting that you do here, so we should just cope with the inevitable mistakes made by non-native speakers writing in English.

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Actually, the wheels falling off an aircraft in SE Asia is quite normal. One of the certified aircraft mechanics simply forgot to put a cotter key and lock nut on the axle shaft after hanger inspection. This is the same type of accident as when a wing on a 737 (Thai Air Narathiwat) at Don Muang blew up because the plane had a "faulty" air-conditioner installed. The fact that the Prime Minister was do to board had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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Boeing 738 ? A new model ....

//wait Google tells me it's a 737-800

Most aircraft models are abbreviated like that on the blogs and schedules as it takes up less room. 737-800=738 747-8i=748 A380-800=A388

check airliners.net

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Actually, the wheels falling off an aircraft in SE Asia is quite normal. One of the certified aircraft mechanics simply forgot to put a cotter key and lock nut on the axle shaft after hanger inspection. This is the same type of accident as when a wing on a 737 (Thai Air Narathiwat) at Don Muang blew up because the plane had a "faulty" air-conditioner installed. The fact that the Prime Minister was do to board had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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http://www.b737.org.uk/accident_reports.htm 3 Mar 2001; HS-TDC, 737-400, 25321/2113, FF 22 Aug 91, Thai Airways; Bangkok,

Thailand:

The flight was being prepared by 5 cabin crew members and 3

ground staff members for a flight to Chiang Mai. The Thai Prime Minister was one

of the 149 passengers waiting to board the plane. 27 minutes before scheduled

departure time, a fire erupted in the cabin, killing a flight attendant and

injuring 6 others. The fire was put out in an hour, but by then the aircraft had

been gutted.

Subsequent investigation discovered that the centre tanks

pumps had been left running when tank was dry which caused the explosion.

Accident very similar to Philippine Airlines 737-300 accident on 5 Nov 90

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Actually, the wheels falling off an aircraft in SE Asia is quite normal. One of the certified aircraft mechanics simply forgot to put a cotter key and lock nut on the axle shaft after hanger inspection. This is the same type of accident as when a wing on a 737 (Thai Air Narathiwat) at Don Muang blew up because the plane had a "faulty" air-conditioner installed. The fact that the Prime Minister was do to board had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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http://www.b737.org.uk/accident_reports.htm 3 Mar 2001; HS-TDC, 737-400, 25321/2113, FF 22 Aug 91, Thai Airways; Bangkok,

Thailand:

The flight was being prepared by 5 cabin crew members and 3

ground staff members for a flight to Chiang Mai. The Thai Prime Minister was one

of the 149 passengers waiting to board the plane. 27 minutes before scheduled

departure time, a fire erupted in the cabin, killing a flight attendant and

injuring 6 others. The fire was put out in an hour, but by then the aircraft had

been gutted.

Subsequent investigation discovered that the centre tanks

pumps had been left running when tank was dry which caused the explosion.

Accident very similar to Philippine Airlines 737-300 accident on 5 Nov 90

Killjoy, you've put a stop to the Thaivisa armchair detectives and their conspiracy theories :)

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Boeing 738 ? A new model ....

//wait Google tells me it's a 737-800

Its pilot language... Yes a boeing 737-800. Just like the A342 is an airbus A340-200

I never lost a tire and dont see how those nuts can come off without noticing

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Actually, the wheels falling off an aircraft in SE Asia is quite normal. One of the certified aircraft mechanics simply forgot to put a cotter key and lock nut on the axle shaft after hanger inspection. This is the same type of accident as when a wing on a 737 (Thai Air Narathiwat) at Don Muang blew up because the plane had a "faulty" air-conditioner installed. The fact that the Prime Minister was do to board had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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'Quite normal' ?? rolleyes.gif

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