Originally Posted by
sabbasolo
Judging from the response, I suspect they found more than just pieces of tyre on the runway, or perhaps pieces from more than one tyre.
Why they chose to fly back more than 1 hour, it indeed suprising. They were about nearly half way there. LY seems to always prefer returning to TLV for maintenance for some reason
They don't have spares at outstations, so they would have to fly them in later, involving even more delays.