From The Aviation Herald

Incident: Ryanair B738 at Dublin on Sep 4th 2010, blew tyre on takeoff

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DAV performing flight FR-1958 from Dublin (Ireland) to Nice (France), blew a nose gear tyre on takeoff from Dublin’s runway 10. The crew of an airliner departing next reported debris on the runway, a runway inspection revealed tyre debris. The Ryanair crew was informed of the tyre debris and decided to divert to Ryanair’s base at Stansted,EN (UK) where the airplane landed safely.

A replacement Boeing 737-800 registration EI-EGB reached Nice with a delay of 3:35 hours.

Source (The Aviation Herald)

From the Aviation Herald

An Allegiant Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration N893GA performing flight G4-768 from Roanoke,VA to Orlando Sanford,FL (USA) with 142 passengers and 5 crew, rejected takeoff from Roanoke’s runway 24 at low speed after a lot of smoke was observed from the right hand engine. The airplane turned off the runway, the tower reported the smoke was no longer visible. Emergency services responded and followed the airplane to the apron, where passengers disembarked normally. Emergency services subsequently confirmed the right hand engine had been on fire and (now at the gate) foamed the engine. (more…)

Photo: P. Radosta/austrianwings.info

Photo: P. Radosta/austrianwings.info

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration TC-JFV performing flight TK-1887 from Istanbul Ataturk (Turkey) to Vienna (Austria), landed on Vienna’s runway 34 when the crew of the following aircraft taking off reported debris on the runway.

Runway 34 was closed, a runway inspection found several pieces of an engine cowling on the runway.

The right hand engine (CFM56) of TC-JFV was found to have lost parts of its cowling in the area of the thrust reverser.

A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration TC-JPN was dispatched to Vienna and reached Istanbul with a total delay of 6:10 hours.

Source: The Aviation Herald

From The Aviation Herald

A Tatarstan Air Boeing 737-300, registration VQ-BDC performing flight U9-5655 from Ufa (Russia) to Antalya (Turkey) with 148 passengers, had departed Ufa when the crew was radioed about tyre debris, that was found on the runway. The crew decided to divert to Kazan (Russia) about 250nm west of Ufa, where the airplane burned off fuel and landed safely about 2 hours after departure. One of the right hand main gear tyres was found damaged.

The flight was cancelled, the passengers were re-booked onto two other flights from Kazan.

Source (The Aviation Herald)

A PSA Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of US Airways, registration N244PS performing flight JIA-539/US-2539 from Charlotte,NC to Mobile,AL (USA), had departed Charlotte’s runway 18C when a number of tyre fragments were spotted prior to intersection with taxiway E4. The airplane levelled off at 11000 feet and returned to Charlotte’s runway 18C for a safe landing about one hour after departure, turned off the runway onto taxiway E3 and stopped past the hold short line.

An inspection revealed the inboard left hand main tyre and wheel had been damaged, the according hydraulic system had failed in the meantime. The aircraft was shut down, the passengers disembarked onto the taxiway and were bussed to the terminal. Engineers are currently inspecting the left hand engine for possible ingestion of debris.

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Source: Aviation Herald

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has published a report detailing ground operations occurrences at Australian airports between 1998 and 2008. You can get the report here in PDF format. A couple of news sites have picked up on this report and have highlighted the dangers from FOD (here and here).

The report describes a worrying trend:

There were 116 FOD occurrences reported to the ATSB between 1998 and 2008 that affected high capacity air transport aircraft. The number of FOD occurrences has increased in a curvilinear fashion from 7 in 1998 to 26 in 2008.

It’s an excellent report, and has a section on FOD (just 4 pages) that not only describes the stats for the 10 year period, but also describes specific incidents. Although the report highlights the real dangers from FOD, it makes no mention at all of the existence of FOD detection systems.

This is not a photo of the actual incident!

Two pilots have been banned from one of New Zealand’s busiest airports after they sneaked on to the runway to race a car. This incident is reported in the Telegraph. Steve Anderson, the chief executive of the airport said:

there was a danger that the car could have left “foreign object debris” on the runway, with serious consequences for aircraft safety.

Source (The Telegraph)

OK, so the title is a little misleading, the video below shows a V-22 Osprey coming into land and unfortunately causing a major FOD hazard, but this time it’s the people who are the victims, not the aircraft.

Read more at The Register.