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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton
I have a friend who is an airline mechanic at SFO, so it’s fun to text him and suggest he was involved with the latest mishap. He said the wheels are around 4-5’ tall and held on with one 8-10” bolt torqued to 500-600 ft/lbs. He said this has happened before.
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If it is true there is only one bolt, it should be even more impossible for it to happen.
For crying out loud, you just put reverse threads on the bolts that would loosen up over time, and instead they tend to tighten up. The British figured this out a hundred years ago.