<p>A British Airways A380 Superjumbo with a stunning square-shaped tyre has landed at London's Heathrow airport, baffling aviation experts.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The deflated tyre with a square shape was part of the landing gear on the flight BA-32 arriving from Hong Kong on Friday.<br /><br />The Airbus A380-800 was climbing out of Hong Kong close to reaching the top of climb when the crew received a tyre pressure indication, Aviation Herald reported.<br /><br />The crew decided to continue the 13-hour flight to London and requested a tow tug to be available for landing in case the aircraft would not be able to taxi on its own.<br /><br />"The aircraft landed safely on Heathrow's runway 09L and taxied to the gate," the report said.<br /><br />A British Airways spokeswoman said the plane landed "normally" with one of its 18 tyres deflated, adding: "The A380, in common with other large commercial aircraft, is designed to be perfectly safe when landing with a deflated tyre."<br /><br />The crew was left puzzled when an inspection found that the right outboard body tyre had deflated on four corners, rather than just at the bottom, as is usual.<br /><br />A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said he had not seen anything like the tyre before.<br /><br />Aviation experts, commenting on the photograph square- shaped tyre of the A380, said they are stunned by it.<br /><br />One serving airline captain said the tyre probably detached from the wheel on landing when the brakes were applied, but stressed that the aircraft was never in danger.<br /><br />He added: "The tyres are pressurised to around seven times that of a car tyre. Once depressurised the tyre will have 'flatted' while the a/c was braking and once it did so it would then rotate through 90 degrees to another part of the tyre and then do it again - hence the four flats you see.<br /><br />"Is it dangerous? No. To lose one is no big deal," the captain was quoted as saying by The Sun.<br /><br />The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner. It is the world's largest passenger airliner that provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in an all-economy class configuration.</p>
<p>A British Airways A380 Superjumbo with a stunning square-shaped tyre has landed at London's Heathrow airport, baffling aviation experts.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The deflated tyre with a square shape was part of the landing gear on the flight BA-32 arriving from Hong Kong on Friday.<br /><br />The Airbus A380-800 was climbing out of Hong Kong close to reaching the top of climb when the crew received a tyre pressure indication, Aviation Herald reported.<br /><br />The crew decided to continue the 13-hour flight to London and requested a tow tug to be available for landing in case the aircraft would not be able to taxi on its own.<br /><br />"The aircraft landed safely on Heathrow's runway 09L and taxied to the gate," the report said.<br /><br />A British Airways spokeswoman said the plane landed "normally" with one of its 18 tyres deflated, adding: "The A380, in common with other large commercial aircraft, is designed to be perfectly safe when landing with a deflated tyre."<br /><br />The crew was left puzzled when an inspection found that the right outboard body tyre had deflated on four corners, rather than just at the bottom, as is usual.<br /><br />A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said he had not seen anything like the tyre before.<br /><br />Aviation experts, commenting on the photograph square- shaped tyre of the A380, said they are stunned by it.<br /><br />One serving airline captain said the tyre probably detached from the wheel on landing when the brakes were applied, but stressed that the aircraft was never in danger.<br /><br />He added: "The tyres are pressurised to around seven times that of a car tyre. Once depressurised the tyre will have 'flatted' while the a/c was braking and once it did so it would then rotate through 90 degrees to another part of the tyre and then do it again - hence the four flats you see.<br /><br />"Is it dangerous? No. To lose one is no big deal," the captain was quoted as saying by The Sun.<br /><br />The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner. It is the world's largest passenger airliner that provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in an all-economy class configuration.</p>