EY plane stuck on runway at MEL for 14 hours after tyres burst

[33kft]

An Etihad Airways plane was stuck on the runway at Melbourne Airport for almost 14 hours after it was forced to abandon a takeoff on Sunday night and its tyres reportedly “burst”.
It meant only one runway was available for operations, causing flight disruptions during what is expected to be Melbourne Airport’s busiest summer for international travel ever.

Etihad confirmed its 6.15pm flight bound for Abu Dhabi rejected takeoff for “technical reasons”, while the airport confirmed the aircraft’s tyres were damaged, meaning the Boeing 787-9 could not be towed off the runway until repairs were done on location.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/flight-disruptions-at-melbourne-airport-as-etihad-airways-aircraft-stuck-on-runway-after-tyres-burst/news-story/d7e27937cf61ba8335e161dc06fc54e8

 

[FlyingFiona]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

 

[Gremlin]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

...and mirrors?!?

 

[33kft]

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

Brilliant. That's one of the best correlation vs causation fallacy examples I've seen lately... Might need to file that one for the next time I need to give an example of a failure in basic reasoning

It reminds me of my favourite electrical root cause for failure - letting the magic smoke out.

 

[Quickstatus]

Daily Fail fails again

 

[SeatBackForward]

A friend of mine was on that plane. He reposted the Daily Mail's article on it which cites the cause of the exploded wheels as being smoke!!

"An Etihad plane with almost 300 passengers on board has been forced to abort take-off after smoke from its landing gear caused two wheels to burst."

And that's why smoking is no longer allowed on flights!