B777 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200; Flight Crew Total 14152; Flight Crew Type 5696
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Human Factors; Procedure; Weather
The landing checklist was complete and the aircraft was on profile and on speed. The winds were from direction 290 at about 18 knots on runway 36L with some convective activity and turbulence presumably from nearby structures. The flap setting was 30 and the auto brakes were set at 3. The PF (Pilot Flying) flew the aircraft in a crab and decrabbed just prior to touchdown with slight upwind wing down. The touchdown was normal and on the upwind main gear first. Deceleration seemed normal with only a few lurches which seemed as if the anti-skid was releasing. As the aircraft slowed a noticeable bang was heard. The aircraft slowed to taxi speed and turned off the runway onto the parallel taxiway. At this time the tower informed us that smoke was observed coming from the landing gear on landing. The tower asked us if we could continue taxi. We informed them that yes we could taxi forward but we wanted someone from the fire house or airport to take a look at the landing gear. We taxied forward abeam the fire house and came to a stop. We shut down the #2 engine and started the APU. A PA announcement was made to explain the situation and to ease the minds of the passengers. Shortly; the tower informed us that a tire had been blown on the starboard main gear truck. (Incidentally; there was a short period of confusion because of the way the tower controller pronounced tire. I thought he said 'damaged tail' versus 'damaged tire' which really threw me for a minute). We initiated a call to dispatch with a phone patch to [maintenance control]. We informed them of the situation and sought a recommendation as to whether we should taxi or not with one tire blown. He suggested that our own maintenance people look at the aircraft. We concurred. Communication with operations was established and we requested maintenance to come to the aircraft to assess the situation. Maintenance arrived at the aircraft and asked for us to shut down the #1 engine. They inspected the landing gear and informed us that there were 4 blown tires. Two on the left main truck and two on the right main truck. The tires that were blown were the #3; #5; #6 and #8. Maintenance informed us that they wanted to tow us to a remote parking spot. There were two status messages that were observed after landing; GEAR INDICATION SYS and AUTO SPEEDBRAKE. The GEAR synoptic was open while waiting for maintenance to arrive. The temperatures were all normal and not elevated after 15 minutes from landing.Approach was flown with A/T (Auto Throttle) and A/P (Auto Pilot) on. A/P was disconnected at approximately 400 ft. Target speed was 135 kts. Aircraft gross weight was 405;000 pounds.
Approaching ZZZ there were gusty conditions and the resulting touchdown was firm but not unusual (not hard). After touchdown the flying F/O used maximum reverse and more than normal braking; I am not sure the reason for this. After clearing the runway the tower reported smoke coming from the aircraft. It took several minutes with language barrier to ascertain that a tire had blown on landing or landing rollout. The aircraft was stopped on the taxiway beside the runway and dispatch/maintenance were called to give input on weather we could and/or should taxi to the gate.Maintenance recommended the local maintenance personnel inspect the aircraft prior to it moving. This is the plan we put in place.After inspection we were notified that 4 tires had blown on the main gear. A tractor was connected and towed us to a hard stand where we deplaned.After visual inspection of the tires it is suspected that all 4 tires were blown due to wheels locking up during deceleration.
B777 flight crew reported several tires were blown during landing rollout.