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Four tires blow as commuter jet lands in Newark
A commuter jet veered off a taxiway after it blew four tires while landing at Newark airport Sunday night. ExpressJet Flight 4480 -- which was carrying 13 people including crew -- touched down at 8:24 p.m. More news from NBCNewYork.com No injuries were reported aboard the Embraer aircraft, which was traveling from Rochester, New York, to Newark. (usnews.nbcnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
all four mains????? really????.....well if you're gonna do something you might as well as do it right and leave no doubt that you were there.
There's a money maker. 8 pax, 5 crew, and 4 blowouts. Service should have been good-right up till landing!!
Flight:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASQ4480/history/20130120/2238Z/KROC/KEWR
A little more detail here: it may not have veered off, just stuck on runway...
http://www.nycaviation.com/2013/01/united-express-flight-blows-tires-on-landing-at-newark/
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASQ4480/history/20130120/2238Z/KROC/KEWR
A little more detail here: it may not have veered off, just stuck on runway...
http://www.nycaviation.com/2013/01/united-express-flight-blows-tires-on-landing-at-newark/
Either one of the pilots had their feet on brakes or, while looking at the hydraulics page they chose to even out the differences between system 1 and 2 which you can do by pumping the brakes even in flight but the unintended consequences are not desirable...
It isn't the pumping of the brakes that does you in since that system deactivates in the air... what gets you is when you try to even it out by setting and releasing the parking brake in the air... once you set it in the air (for some reason I can't remember) it doesn't release.
Trust me, at TransStates there was a guy who pumped the brakes and although it doesn't activate them it transfers the fluid from 1 system to another, I can't remember which to which. According to his FO they were able to even out the hydraulic levels in both systems. When they landed they blew out all the main tires.