Scary Video Shows Wheel Coming Off Air Canada Plane During Takeoff

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Scary Video Shows Wheel Coming Off Air Canada Plane During Takeoff

Imagine you comfortably sitting in your seat on a plane, looking out the window and watching it take off the runway, and then suddenly something scary happens; the plane loses one of its wheels! Well, although no one wants to picture themselves in that situation, that’s exactly what happened to a bunch of passengers on an Air Canada plane!

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According to the New York Post, the express plane tried to take off from Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport en route to Bagotville when the wheel fell off, forcing the flight to return to the airport. One of the passengers aboard the plane actually caught the frightening moment when the wheel started to spew flames then eventually fly off the left main landing gear. “I’m currently on a plane that just lost a wheel. 2020 starting off well,” he wrote in French on Twitter. 49 passengers and three crew members happened to be on the flight at the time.

Thankfully, the twin-engine plane was equipped with six tires — two on the right landing gear, two on the left and two on the nose, The Post reports, and a spokesperson as their experienced pilots had the situation completely under control.

“The experienced pilots maintained complete control of the aircraft,” Manon Stuart, a spokeswoman for Jazz Aviation, the operator of the flight, told CNN in a statement. “Our pilots are well trained to deal with such situations and responded according to our standard operating procedures,” she added. “Our maintenance personnel in Montreal are conducting a thorough inspection of the aircraft to determine the cause and proceed with the necessary repairs,” The Post quotes.

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