Another day, another bizarre, disturbing incident in our skies. This sort of thing has become so routine lately that it might be tempting to ignore it, but nothing was routine in the view of the passengers on United Airlines flight 1001 yesterday while they were taking off from the Los Angeles International Airport heading to Denver. The Boeing 757-200 was just lifting off when a loud “clunking” sound was heard. It turns out that one of the wheels on the plane’s main landing gear had simply fallen off and was plummeting back to the ground. Nobody was injured and the plane still managed to land safely in Denver, but the incident was disturbingly similar to the one in March when another United flight lost a tire while taking off from San Francisco. That tire destroyed a car in the airport parking lot, but there thankfully no injuries during that event either. (Associated Press)
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