Atlanta, Georgia airport news: Passengers recount terrifying moment plane tires blow out during landing
ATLANTA — The tires on an aircraft blew out while attempting to land at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday evening, according to airport officials.
The LATAM Airlines flight was coming from Peru, officials said. Passengers on the aircraft are being deplaned. The passengers were aboard LATAM Airlines flight 2482 from Lima, Peru, to Atlanta. The plane, a Boeing 767, departed Lima at 12:14 p.m. and landed in Atlanta at 7:38 p.m.
Several passengers aboard the plane told 11Alive’s Cody Alcorn exactly what happened on the harrowing experience at the Atlanta airport.
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A woman who is a passenger on the plane said that after the landing, bathroom doors broke inside the plane, panels broke, insulation was coming from the ceiling and that passengers were still stuck on the plane as of 9:10 p.m. She told 11Alive’s Cody Alcorn they were off the flight by 9:40 p.m.
She talked about how there was a lot of turbulence coming into Hartsfield-Jackson on landing and the touch down was extremely rough before the tires blew. Once she was off the plane, she said the tires looked like they were halfway melted. The passenger was able to grab a photo of the busted tires when deplaning.
Another passenger said the plane felt like it was continuing at high speeds once it touched down, and as the plane tried to come to a halt at what felt like faster than normal speeds, the tires blew on the plane.
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