ORD Tire Turmoil: Fourth Jet Sidelined by Blowouts at Chicago Airport in Two Weeks

An American Airlines flight at Chicago O’Hare suffered a tire blowout on the taxiway, marking the fourth tire-related incident at ORD in two weeks; passengers were sent back to the terminal and the flight later departed for Charlotte on a replacement aircraft. The rash of outages also included another American plane with two tires burst on landing, and a United flight whose tires were damaged on landing earlier, prompting renewed safety concerns at the airport.