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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27201081

Some spare wheels on the runway! No injuries.

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Stuff still getting off smaller wise, presently airbagging it up and getting ready to shift it off, they are also resurfacing part of the runway, damn potholes ;)

All the other aircrew at the airport got the day off :cool: I wonder how they managed to break the gear off like that?

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They didn't, had a look at the leg, it had a crack where the chromed part of the strut met the axle, the crack had been there a while in my opinion, so under braking it failed. By 9 am it was sitting on a replacement undercarriage leg in the hangar, though possibly simply just a slave unit.

Expect an AD from Boeing soon!