{"id":3042,"date":"2026-01-28T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:51:03","slug":"watch-moment-wheel-falls-off-british-airways-plane-during-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"Watch moment wheel falls off British Airways plane during take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-wheely-good-watch\">A wheely good watch.<\/h2>\n<p>A video has been circulating online of the moment a wheel fell of a British Airways plane while it was taking off.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A350-1000 was departing Las Vegas and was heading to London Heathrow Airport as flight BA274.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>After the aircraft lifted off and began to retract its wheels, one of the wheels on the main landing gear detached and fell from the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, aircraft are built with plenty of redundancy with each main landing gear having six wheels.<\/p>\n<p>The wheel lost by the A350 in Las Vegas was the rear-most, outside wheel on the right main landing gear.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>A pictures of the landing gear has also been circulating after the aircraft landed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Fortunately, no one on the ground was hurt in the incident in Las Vegas and the plane was able to land safely at its destination in London.<\/p>\n<p>The moment was captured on video by Flightradar24\u2019s automated live stream at Las Vegas Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The moment is difficult to see due to the incident happening at night, although you can see the wheel drop at the 02:54 mark in the video as the landing gear is retracted.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the moment here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"British Airways A350 loses a wheel departing Las Vegas\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrYNa-gC6BU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category -->\n            <\/div>\n<p>#Watch #moment #wheel #falls #British #Airways #plane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wheely good watch. A video has been circulating online of the moment a wheel fell of a British Airways plane while it was taking off. The Airbus A350-1000 was departing Las Vegas and was heading to London Heathrow Airport as flight BA274. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; After the aircraft lifted off and began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2566,1766,1852,1855,1836,1556,923,1769,1767,1498,2565],"class_list":{"0":"post-3042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-airways","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-british","11":"tag-british-airways","12":"tag-falls","13":"tag-moment","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-plane","16":"tag-planejoe","17":"tag-watch","18":"tag-wheel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}