Originally Posted by mcrt
How do you blow a tire on takeoff? I can understand popping them when you come down. My family had a housemoving business and we would buy old airplane tires for the dollies. Those things are pretty darn tough.
Why not? I've had plenty of flats on my cars and pickups over the years, but never on landing. Why shouldn't planes have flats & blowouts at other times, too?
I believe the Concorde crash in Paris was caused by tire debris from another jet that had just taken off.