All 8 tires burst in harrowing Atlanta landing failure involving passenger jet

First responders successful Atlanta rushed to an airdrome runway Tuesday aft an craft experienced a harrowing landing failure, with each 8 of its landing tires bursting the infinitesimal the level touched down, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

LATAM Flight 2482, a Boeing 767, landed astatine Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Tuesday evening aft a seven-hour formation from Lima, Peru.

According to Fox 5, citing a formation expert, the antithetic incidental whitethorn not person been the effect of a hard landing, but alternatively a imaginable malfunction successful the aircraft’s automatic braking system.

Images from the aftermath revealed dislodged compartment panels and a bath doorway torn from its hinges, according to the section station.

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Emergency crews respond to a damaged craft connected the runway astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport successful Atlanta connected Jan. 6, 2026. (@daeboganmusic/Fox 5 Atlanta)

No injuries were reported pursuing the incident, but airdrome unit who witnessed the landing described proceeding aggregate popping sounds arsenic the wheels deed the tarmac, followed by disposable smoke.

"I was astatine enactment and my coworkers and I heard a mates of large bangs and saw a batch of smoke," a idiosyncratic posted connected societal media Tuesday. "One of the airdrome ops guys told america that the level landed truthful hard that each the tires blew out."

Another traveler noted that arsenic the level decelerated, different rider recalled the unsettling sensation of wheels "rattling connected the tarmac" for an unusually agelong time, Fox 5 reported.

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Passengers evacuate a level connected Jan. 6, 2026, astatine the Atlanta airport. (@daeboganmusic/Fox 5 Atlanta)

The 221 radical connected committee were reportedly stranded connected the tarmac for 2 hours earlier being transported to the terminal by bus.

Speaking to Fox 5, retired Capt. Paul Carr, who flew 767s for years, called the incidental "very odd." The erstwhile Delta aviator said that portion tyre blowouts are comparatively common, it is uncommon for each 8 tires to neglect astatine once. He added that a malfunction successful the automatic braking strategy apt triggered the catastrophe by locking the wheels and generating utmost friction.

A close-up presumption shows damaged landing cogwheel connected a LATAM Boeing 767 aft the craft landed from Lima, Peru, and suffered a landing nonaccomplishment astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport connected Jan. 7, 2026. (@yashodunn/Fox 5 Atlanta)

 "That's precise unusual for each 8 tires to stroke connected a landing," Carr said. "More than likely, the brake strategy logic... malfunctioned, and it locked up each the brakes and conscionable caused them to blow."

Crews respond connected the runway aft LATAM Flight 2482 experienced a landing nonaccomplishment astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport successful Atlanta connected Jan. 6, 2026. (Fox 5 Atlanta)

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The incidental prompted a impermanent runway shutdown but did not importantly impact wide airdrome operations.

Fox News reached retired to LATAM and the Federal Aviation Administration for much information.