Several vehicles were damaged in a parking lot at San Francisco International Airport, after a tire fell off a United Airlines jet during takeoff Thursday morning.
SAN FRANCISCO INT'L AIRPORT – According to airport officials, around 11:35 a.m., United Airlines Flight 35 lost a piece of its landing gear. Tire debris from the Boeing 777-200 landed in an employee parking lot at the airport.Video from chopper shows damaged vehicles in the parking lot, along with where the tire came to rest.Officials said the runway was briefly closed to clear debris. The runway has since reopened.
The flight was bound for Osaka, Japan and had a total of 249 people on board.'The 777-200 has six tires on each of its two main landing gear struts. The aircraft is designed to land safely with missing or damaged tires,' said a United Airlines spokesperson.The airline said it is arranging a new aircraft for the affected passengers. It was not immediately known when the passengers would continue their journey to Japan.
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