Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/passenger-videos-plane-wheel-d.html
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That’s a type of redundancy we can all get behind.
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Thank God for redundancy.
If only executives could understand “being inefficient” (“we’re using up twice as many tires as needed?”) can save a lot of unhappiness, even on less safety-critical systems…
[Edit: Sniped!]
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the moment that wheel dropped off, omg. if i was on the plane i think i’d feel justified having a freakout.
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Meh… the Dash-8’s are derived from hard-core Canadian bush plane tech. You can feel it when they land in choppy weather, it’s a fairly “planted on the runway” feeling…
My sister spent some time in the north with a pilot who kept a fold-out wallet with the photos of his many “hard landings”… the last one apparently due to using a helicopter to try and pull a snowmobile out from a hole in the ice.
At least they didn’t have to do an extra pass along the runway to clear the caribou off first.
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your mileage may definitely vary.
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Airlines are really getting draconian about weight limits.
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Taking a cue from the U-2, with takeoff gear on the wings that gets immediately jettisoned on lifting off. That would make an airliner landing interesting, to say the least.
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Thanks for the AbFab – I had no idea that Siouxsie and the Banshees song was actually Bob Dylan’s!
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Okay my eyes popped out of my head just watching that fall off
And I make Aerospace parts for a living! 
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Any aviation experts on BB want to chime in on the failure? Was it a wheel bearing? That’s the only thing I can think of that would heat up the hub so badly that the wheel would fall off. If it was a brake malfunction you’d think the pilot would abort takeoff due to the uneven drag.
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Wondering where the wheel landed (who it landed on)?
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Let’s hear it for Jazz improvisation!
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It looks like it came off so soon after takeoff that it probably just bounced down the end of the runway.
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I wonder if the pilot deliberately set that side down last.
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“Er… excuse me, Steward? Those drinks are complementary, right? Okay, keep 'em coming.”
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Above, surely?
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indeed. make them doubles!
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My hands would probably be shaking hard enough to cause a drinking problem:
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