Aviation experts baffled after BA flight arrives at Heathrow with a square tyre
Experts have been stunned by a photograph showing a square-shaped tyre on a BA A380 which touched down at Heathrow. The deflated wheel was part of the landing gear on the flight arriving from Hong Kong on Friday, according to The Sun. Officials from the Civil Aviation Authority described the phenomenon as “curious” and a serving pilot admitted he wasn’t sure how it could have occurred. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said: “It is a curious one. Not seen anything like it before.” One serving airline captain said the tire probably detached from the wheel on landing when the brakes were applied, but stressed that the aircraft was never in danger. He added: “The tyres are pressurised to around seven times that of a car tire. Once depressurised the tyre will have ‘flatted’ while the (aircraft) was braking and once it did so it would then rotate through 90 degrees to another part of the tyre and then do it again — hence the four flats you see. “Is it dangerous? No. To lose one is no big deal.” The Royal Aeronautical Society has not yet found anyone within its ranks who can explain the picture fully.<br/>
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Aviation experts baffled after BA flight arrives at Heathrow with a square tyre
Experts have been stunned by a photograph showing a square-shaped tyre on a BA A380 which touched down at Heathrow. The deflated wheel was part of the landing gear on the flight arriving from Hong Kong on Friday, according to The Sun. Officials from the Civil Aviation Authority described the phenomenon as “curious” and a serving pilot admitted he wasn’t sure how it could have occurred. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said: “It is a curious one. Not seen anything like it before.” One serving airline captain said the tire probably detached from the wheel on landing when the brakes were applied, but stressed that the aircraft was never in danger. He added: “The tyres are pressurised to around seven times that of a car tire. Once depressurised the tyre will have ‘flatted’ while the (aircraft) was braking and once it did so it would then rotate through 90 degrees to another part of the tyre and then do it again — hence the four flats you see. “Is it dangerous? No. To lose one is no big deal.” The Royal Aeronautical Society has not yet found anyone within its ranks who can explain the picture fully.<br/>
