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Southwest B733 at LAX, wheel departed main gear
« on: October 14, 2009, 08:37:21 PM »
"A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300, registration N670SW performing flight WN-341 from Las Vegas,NV to Los Angeles,CA (USA) with 137 passengers, 2 jumpeseaters and 5 crew, touched down on runway 24R when the inboard right main gear axle fractured. The inboard right main wheel as well as the brakes assembly separated from the aircraft."

From:

http://avherald.com/h?article=421018ef&opt=0

I looked in the archives for Sep 8th 2009 for audio of the incident...no luck...