Officials in New Jersey are probing whether shards from a damaged tire lead to a Continental Airlines flight being forced to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday, according to The Star-Ledger.
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Authorities suspect that pieces of the plane’s tire may have damaged the hydraulic system of Continental Flight 9, which had taken off for Tokyo but had to return to Newark because the crew couldn’t retract its landing gear.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police had a photo of the tire following the emergency landing, and most of its tread had been sheared off, according to The Ledger.
The Federal Aviation Administration planned to study flight and maintenance data from Continental to confirm if the tire shards did cut the hydraulic line.
The Boeing 777, which had 291 passengers and crew, landed back at Newark airport less than an hour after its takeoff, setting back down at 12:15 p.m.
