[llevrok]

I'm not a pilot...but how do you blow tires in take off unless they are in bad shape to start with?

[lacrew]

Buy tires made in China?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Good question. Blowing mains during landing is common if the anti-lock braking isn’t working but nose landing gear tires have no brakes. But then, a tire blowing on takeoff is what brought down the Concord.

[Jeff F]

I experienced that a as passenger long ago in a Learjet 23. Lost pressure in one of the rear tires upon landing at a remote airport to drop off one passenger. As the airport had no service facilities, the pilots unwisely elected to take off. The Lear has dual tires on each of its rear landing gear.

Sometime after reaching V1, the bad tire partially disintegrated taking out one of the brake hydraulic systems. That meant the wheels had to remain down and locked while the pilots rerouted to a major airport which also was a Learjet service center. We leveled off at much lower than the usual 41,000 foot cruising altitude, and the emergency oxygen masks automatically dropped - that got my attention.

Upon landing the damaged tire complete disintegrated and took out it's twin. There was a fireworks display of metal sparks from the mostly bare wheels contacting the pavement at high speed.

We rolled to stop on the runway and the pilot in one motion grabbed the extinguisher and very quickly exited the door. Lots of black smoke mixed with the clouds of CO2. Quite a show.

No one was hurt and even the landing gear was not a complete loss.

Even though that early model of Lear could be something of a deathtrap, it was by far the most fun type of flying I have ever experienced.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “how do you blow tires in take off unless they are in bad shape to start with?” <<

Debris on the runway?

Remember the plane that got confused on take-off in a cold fog and tried to use the taxiway where there was a D-9 dozer in the way?