Thai Airlines burst Tyre today in Chiang Mai?

[joyvee]

News report says it all. Very perplexing can a tyre deflate as well as explode? Some help educate me1
Here is report from Thai Visa
A Thai Airways International (THAI) plane’s rear tyre burst shortly after it landed safely on the runway at Mae Faluang airport in Chiang Rai this morning.

Flight TG 130 landed safely on the runway at about 9.30 a.m. and was on the taxiway to the airport terminal when a loud explosion was heard. It was later found to be the burst of a rear tyre on the right landing gear of the plane.

Nobody was injured and THAI officials said it was not a burst but just the tyre deflated after landing.

Source: http://englishnews.t...-bursts-landing

--Thai PBS 2013-11-05
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[horseman]

Well if the tyre burst, it would then deflate. Explosion is a bit of a dramatic way to describe it though. If the tyre was deflated to begin with it could easily overheat and burst once in use

 

[docjames]

ISTR there are (effectively) "blow off" valves whereby it "bursts" a valve and the tyre deflates in a controlled way rather than burst thru the sidewall and destroy the tyre.

Sounds like might be what happened here (overheated on landing, valve "blew up" later as it taxied away).

Might be one for jb747 to comment on.....