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Air Canada jet carrying 130 'is preparing for an emergency landing at Madrid airport
An Air Canada Boeing 767 is set to make an emergency landing at an airport in Madrid after part of its landing gear reportedly fell off and entered its engines. The plane bound for Toronto carrying 130 passengers is expected to land around 6pm local time after spending three hours circling Madrid to burn as much fuel as possible. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Other info : ACA837 was departing Madrid's runway 36L when the left hand engine (CF6) suffered a number of compressor stalls emitting bangs and streaks of flame. The crew shut the engine down, levelled at 5000 feet initially, later orbiting hold at 8000 feet to burn off fuel and have the landing gear inspected by fighter aircraft. The fighter aircraft confirmed one of the tires was blown. The Air Canada 767 aircraft landed safely at Madrid Barajas about 4 hours after departure.
Hmmmmmmm, huge difference between part of the landing gear falling of and having a blown tire. Glad everyone is okay.
True, but I have heard of a tire disintegrating on the take off roll and flinging debris ahead of the engine which it then ingests damaging fan blades. Remote but plausible.
In a case like that, you could say part of the landing gear fell off. Sounds like you remote but plausible theory happened here.
I agree with the tire shedding parts into the engine. All agree that the news rarely gets it right.
AF Concorde, maybe?
That was somewhat different, nothing was ingested into the engine. The tire was cut by debris left on the runway by another aircraft, and the tire exploded and punctured the fuel tank in the left wing. Fuel gushing from under the wing was then lit by the engine exhaust (the Concorde had afterburners).