A British Airways A350 shed one of the wheel assemblies on its right main landing gear while taking off from Harry Reid Las Vegas International Airport Monday. The aircraft completed the takeoff roll, and the landing gear was almost fully retracted when the wheel fell off. It’s not clear where the almost 5-foot-diameter tire landed or whether it damaged anything. No injuries were reported. The plane carried on to London and landed normally. The video below was captured by an automated camera operated by LASVEGASAIRPORTLIVE.
British Airways A350-1000 loses one of its main gear wheels on departure from Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport.
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The incident captured on a Flightradar24 automated live stream occurred last night on the BA274, as reported by @flightradar24.
The flight continued for a… pic.twitter.com/ftMM7ixrR4
You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!
Ahhh, the finest form of humor 😂
lol
a material failure or mech screw up / a&p
Probably yes Lucille.