[kaycebasques]

I'm curious what the pilot's experience was like. Do I get a notification right away that a wheel fell off or was it a radio call from air traffic control? While I'm in flight, do I have a little camera or something where I can see the wheels? Because there's no way to actually go look at them when they're tucked away and you're flying, right? In other words how did they determine that they should still attempt a normal landing (I guess there aren't really any better other options though, are there?)

[mjcl]

Someone has already stitched together the ATC/plane radio traffic[1], it sounds like the pilots on the plane initially had no idea. Oakland departure had to tell the pilots that people on the ground saw something falling off the plane.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeGo79nRMwU

[saalweachter]

So what I'm hearing here is, if I see a tire fall of a plane, I should, like, tell someone, who can eventually get word back to the pilot.

[fotta]

they have tire pressure sensors so I'm guessing that the pilot would get an alert that the tire pressure info for that tire disappeared

[oynqr]

Boeing is going to fix this by installing tyre _presence_ sensors.

[hagbard_c]

Nah, they'll be going for the latest iteration of TriMCAS - Tricycle Manoeuvrability Characteristics Augmentation System - which makes the plane behave more or less like it should plus or minus some tyres. They'll make the whole system dependent on a single ABS sensor in one of the front wheels though so if that wheel happens to fall off the plane will ground loop upon touching down.

[rapind]

With no manual override.

[justinclift]

But only sometimes. ;)

[2-718-281-828]

there are dedicated LEDs in the main panel for each wheel indicating if it fell off