Yesterday afternoon, a Atlas Air Boeing 747 from Anchorage landed into Los Angeles with a blown tire on it’s landing gear.
Information has been released pertinent to this incident, which we will get into in this article.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
Atlas Air Flight 5Y8350 – Anchorage to Los Angeles…
Atlas Air flight 5Y8350 is a routine scheduled cargo flight between Anchorage and Los Angeles.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in this incident is N429MC.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N429MC is a 33.7 year old Boeing 747 that originally started out life with All Nippon Airways in October 1990.
By April 2008, the aircraft was handed over to Atlas Air after being converted into a cargo aircraft.
Of the 747-400 Freighter variant, 5Y has 48 of them in the fleet.
Furthermore, of that 48, all but seven are in active service, with an average age of 24.3 years.
Atlas Air flight 5Y8350 departed Anchorage at 1029 local time yesterday morning and tracked south to Los Angeles.
As seen above, on landing, it was observed that the Atlas Air Boeing 747 suffered a blown tire and was seen from the gear itself.
Furthermore, the aircraft landed safely into LAX at 1614 local time and was able to taxi to a stand without assistance.
Aircraft Was Repaired Quickly…
Data from RadarBox shows that the aircraft was repaired pretty quickly before returning to commercial service.
Furthermore, it would just take a replacement of the tire, which in total took around nine hours.
From there, the aircraft continued on to Mexico City from Los Angeles.
No further incidents have been reported since this blown tire.
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