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Originally Posted by lrobe22
Op Specs and Ops Manual requirements. Professional aviation, especially in the 121 world, is not driving your granny's turd brown metallic with piss yellow stripes and 87 decals C8 around to car meets to setup a lawn chair and talk about magazine 0-60 times. Generally speaking if redundancies are lost, capability is considerably reduced, etc. the flight is required to Land as Soon as Possible. You don't just keep going just because. If your family was on board, would you want the flight to divert and perform the safest action or just YOLO and risk additional issues?
Blown tires could easily result in a loss or reduction in directional control upon landing especially if the runway is contaminated.
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This I don't understand. It's the exact same risk no matter what airport you land at. Why divert and land somewhere else, fix the tire, then fly to the destination? That makes no sense. The landing gear is retracted, whether you fly another 10 miles or 1,000 miles, the danger is the same.....it's a danger when the plane touches down.
It's like the stories of an unruly passenger onboard so the pilot diverts. Let's say I had some unruly person, but the passengers and crew detained that person and duct taped him to the seat, so the emergency is over. Why divert? Just fly on to where everyone needs to go and let the cops there deal with it.
Obviously some kind of medical issue on board would require landing as soon as possible. The blown tire? It's already blown, it's not going to be any more dangerous to fly to the destination vs. stop at the first available airport.