Glasgow Airport Incident

All news channels reporting an Air Malta aircraft coming in for an emergency landing, having circled Glasgow for over 90 mins to burn off fuel. The plane is expected to land shortly with hydraulics failure.

Who will be first with pictures this time? James Matthews already in Glasgow for Sky, but has he got a satellite truck parked on his driveway?

I guess it's a story that could go either way. May be nothing, but has potential to be disastorous.

I would think that it's all in fairly safe hands......

Yes everyone loves a little aviation scare these days.

Not that a big story, Im sure burst tyres are quite a common occurance, and not something that started happening to planes too recently.

You're both probably right. Because I haven't really done much this evening, the central heating coming on is an event for me!

Ok, bit of a mini-adventure that one. Planes landed safely, everyone's gone home.

Now my thread looks silly

you had no way of knowing - the plane could have crashed heavily, run into a terminal, taken 3 tankers with it.........

Plane tyres have to be replaced relatively often - once every 5 flights or something!

A nice diversion from the routines of ordinary life....... glad everyone is OK......

I don't know why. Say a runway is one mile long (I'm using Fairford as reference), and the plane uses most of it to take off and land - thats still only 2 miles a flight. Surely they don't wear down that easily?

Depends on how long the runway is - there's one near Guildford (Dunsfold) that's 2 miles long....

Yes, but that's only used for Hamster training!

And how well maintained / built the runway is.
Plus the apron and the tarmac for taxiing.