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Tire falls off United flight departing SFO, crushing several vehicles in parking lot, company says

A tire fell off a United Airlines flight taking off from SFO to Osaka, Japan Thursday morning, officials confirmed. SKY7 was over a parking lot nearby, where it appears the tire hit and damaged cars. https://abc7ne.ws/49IMsAL #news #airplane #airport #unitedairlines #boeing #investigation #abc7news

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for any of you that are watching and continue to watch our live stream for the latest information on this developing situation happening in California you're looking at the Damage Done by a tire that came off of a United Airlines flight that was taking off from San Francisco International Airport and heading to LAX uh the plane took off shortly before noon and that's when the tire came off the plane that tire and this is going to be video that you're going to see of the plane taking off this is
the exact plane that was impacted we're going to show you this once again you'll get a better image here highlighted is the tire coming off the plane takes off at some point very early on the crew realizes what happens and they decide to divert that plane rather than heading to Osaka we see about an hour hour and a half later the plane heads South and they decided to make the emergency landing at LAX airport in Los Angeles where we see this plane touch down land safely on the runway which you'll
see without one tire and again we are told by experts that these planes are equipped enough they're fine to land without a piece of equipment like a tire because there are multiple on each side and um you could see the plane here landed safely no one injured 235 passengers on board who will soon be put on a different plane to continue their trip to Osaka Japan we have sound from Air Traffic Control the call that's coming in that I want to play this is just new into our Newsroom so let's go ahea
d and listen into that now of what was said during these tense moments on that United Airlines flight okay it looks like uh we're having some issues with the audio levels on that we're going to try to get that for you here we go yeah we're gonna we're talking with company and they're trying to determine if the issue if it was indeed our uh Tire we don't have any indications here on board that it was uh but okay United 35 thanks and Oakland United 35 yeah we're going to we're talking with company
and they're trying to determine if the issue if it was indeed our uh Tire we don't have any indications here on board that it was uh but for right now we're going to continue said someone on the ground reported they saw they think they saw something come off the aircraft they weren't 100% of the tire or something else all right so you just heard some of the air traffic control call that we heard uh shortly after takeoff and this is just some of what they said if you couldn't hear it very clearl
y sometimes it's difficult to hear that uh they say United 35 NorCal just called said the tower called them that they think that it might have been you they're not sure but you might have lost a wheel on takeoff we hear them say thank you and this is the wheel that we're looking at that did come off um we're talking with the company and they're trying to determine if the issue if it was indeed our tire we don't have any indications here on board that it was but for right now that we're going to
continue and then we hear them say NorCal just called and said someone on the ground reported that they think they saw something come off the aircraft they weren't sure if it was a tire or something else

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