Wheel of Misfortune: United Airlines 777 Loses Wheel at San Francisco Airport! [ATC audio]

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March 7, 2024. A United Airlines Boeing 777 operating United Flight 35 departs from San Francisco bound for Osaka. As the aircraft begins its climb, a wheel from the left main gear falls from the aircraft onto airport property. With the wheel unaccounted for, the airport must close all runways until runways have been inspected; meanwhile the crew of United 35 must decide whether to continue or divert. Watch and listen as the pilots and air traffic control coordinate to get the aircraft back on the ground safely, and San Francisco Tower controllers work to get the airport’s runways open.
Flight Number: UA35/UAL35
Operator: United Airlines
Route: San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) ❯ Osaka (KIX/RJBB)
Registration: N226UA
Type: Boeing 777-222(ER)
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0:00 UNITED 35
0:35 San Francisco Tower
1:41 Wheel Falls from Aircraft
3:34 Runway Inspections Begin
8:28 Runway 1L Opens
11:11 Runway 1R Opens
12:32 All Runways Open
14:20 NORCAL Departure
16:37 Epilogue
#Emergency #Mayday #ATC #AirTrafficVisualised
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Air traffic control audio courtesy of LiveATC.net.
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[@AirTrafficVisualised]

This took a lot longer than I’d anticipated to get finished - thanks to everyone watching for your patience! From the large number of aircraft (159), captions (177), custom ground vehicles (5) to individual airspace sectors (468), everything about this production was big and required a lot of wrangling to bring together.
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[@MrNotech]

Absolutely worth the wait! Your commentary, visuals and overall attention to detail in production make yours the best ATC channel in my opinion

[@waynekerrbbc]

👆 what he said

[@jetjock60]

Well done! I can only imagine the length of time and dedication to thoroughness it took to put this together. The details of mixing in the post event radio transmissions are appreciated! As the Brits might say - "Well done YOU".

[@Korxil]

It's all worth it. The other ATC channels might be the first to show something, but they're not able to show the full picture, or I guess the full context (transmissions or animations for unrelated planes)? For example, visualizing how busy these airports actually are.

[@Sihayanami]

​​@@KorxilSeconded; no matter where I go to hear the initial audio, I always prefer to rewatch it with AirTrafficVisualised's higher quality analysis whenever he's made one available. For instance, this video had me realize just how close all those planes doing go-arounds were buzzing directly over the Ops vehicles doing their runway inspections... I mean, I know that's part of their job and all, but still!

[@MazzieMay]

I feel like I just keep leaving the same comment over and over, but this is television-level of production. The narration, the visuals, cutting in footage and radio chatter -- easily could have two or three of these for an episode. Genuinely great work, man!

[@jakint0sh]

I can’t agree more, bravo!

[@AirTrafficVisualised]

Thank you @MazzieMay, glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@redblackhobbit]

Ditto! Amazing production value, keep up the amazing work!

[@OutbackCatgirl]

​@@AirTrafficVisualisedThey're just as phenomenal, if not even better, than when you were starting out years ago. The praise I gave back on those early videos still applies in spades!

[@ethanchapman1776]

Definitely one of the nost technically impressive aviation videos I've ever seen! Excellent work as always! Great work by the tower to organize such a huge disruption as well.

[@stephanieparker1250]

Well worth the wait, great video as always. 🤗

[@some2outhere559]

Loved that VJA151 crossing the zoomed in side. Great work.

[@stephanieparker1250]

Always great to listen to the amazing work done by the tower! Thank goodness witnesses saw the tire fall, could have been a disaster on the runway.

[@moi1310]

I wonder how the employee was injured? Also super lucky that the damages weren't so servere.

[@Sihayanami]

I spent much of that day watching news updates about the situation, yet this is the first time I've heard of anyone getting injured. I hope it was something they were able to recover from quickly!

[@kungura1]

How does the air traffic controller keep track of (and remember) each plane's location? Is there an aid telling him where ... EJA414 is waiting?

[@andy1536]

Lot of experience of the controller plus airport ground radar(s).

[@CameronReape]

Dude Perfect reference

[@AustralianConsultancy]

Wondering what is the background music and how can I find it :)

[@AirTrafficVisualised]

All the music is original and can be found here: airtrafficvisualised.bandcamp.com/

[@Donnybrook10]

that was a waste of time

[@fakstate]

amazing work, thanks