Further to imverge's post upthread from July 17 (2977), ROUGE B767 turns back to Gatwick Airport

Incident: Canada Rouge B763 at London on Jul 17th 2017, burst tyre on departure

By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, Jul 17th 2017 21:20Z, last updated Tuesday, Jul 18th 2017 21:31Z

An Air Canada Rouge Boeing 767-300 on behalf of Air Canada, registration C-FMLV performing flight AC-1925 from London Gatwick,EN (UK) to Toronto,ON (Canada) with 282 people on board, departed Gatwick's runway 08R but burst a tyre on departure prompting the crew to stop the climb at FL070. Debris was found on the departure runway. The aircraft entered a hold for about 30 minutes, then positioned for the approach to and landed safely on Gatwick's runway 08R. The forward outboard right hand main tyre was found blown.

The airport reported the runway was closed shortly after departure of the aircraft for about 15 minutes while the runway was inspected and debris removed, then the runway was reopened for the return of the aircraft and closed again after landing. The backup runway 08L was put into operation however had to be closed as well after debris swept over onto that runway, too.

On Jul 18th 2017 the Canadian TSB reported the crew heard a loud bang while at high speed. The crew continued takeoff and while following the standard instrument departure declared PAN and requested vectors over the English Channel to prevent debris falling onto populated areas when the landing gear would be lowered. Air Traffic Control advised they had heard the bang, too, and tyre debris was found on the departure runway. The flight crew briefed cabin crew for an abnormal landing and a return to Gatwick was initiated where the aircraft landed overweight but safely on runway 08R. Both engines were shutdown while crew and emergency services monitored the increasing brakes temperatures. Passengers and crew deplaned onto the runway and were bussed to the terminal, the aircraft was subsequently towed off the runway. There were no injuries and with the exception of the tyre no damage to the aircraft.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4abc3ac0&opt=0



From PPRuNe 18th Jul 2017

http://www.pprune.org/9834694-post9.html

Here's an example of a 767 tire burst on takeoff causing damage to hydraulic and other systems:

Accident: Delta B763 at Madrid on Dec 5th 2013, burst tyre on takeoff, hydraulic failure, taxiway excursion after landing
http://avherald.com/h?article=46c87473

Also, with a tire burst you don't want to retract the gear so you're not going to do a crossing.



http://www.pprune.org/9835127-post10.html

It happened in front of us. Chaos emerged with Gatwick only having 1 runway (forgive my plug for another). They temporarily reopened 08L for a few departures for which we were number 1 and subsequently closed it again soon after. On the climb out we listened to all arriving aircraft diverting, those queueing on the ground behind us had shut down engines.

When it came to the return leg we had a 7 hour slot... luckily it came forward a lot!

I expected the 767 to need to dump fuel but I don't think they did in the end. Saw it on a remote stand when I got back.

We heard them report massive vibration. Main gear tyre debris found on the runway along with a sizeable gauge from the wheel. An engineer showed me pictures of the gear, some of the tyre still remained on the wheel.

South Terminal was rammed with annoyed pax when I left at 2330L, to the minute, minimum rest for the next day


Photo from the AvHerald post:

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