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United Airlines Boeing 777 loses aft inner wheel on departure from San Francisco Airport

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Only collateral damage when a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 (registered N226UA) lost its aft inner wheel on departure from San Francisco Airport, United States on March 7th. In a spotters livestream YouTube video, (see below), you can see the detachment of the wheel from the 777.

Flight UA35 to Osaka, Japan discontinued the climb and diverted to Los Angeles Airport for a safe landing.

United Airlines said that the flight carried 235 passengers, 10 flight attendants and 4 pilots.

“The 777-200 has six tyres on each of its two main landing gear struts. The aircraft is designed to land safely with missing or damaged tyres,” the airline said.

The tyre ended up on an employee car parking lot, leaving damage to some vehicles.

Luckily, nobody got injured during the incident.