United flight loses 265-pound tire during takeoff, smashes into cars below

United flight loses 265-pound tire during takeoff, smashes into cars below

A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after losing a tire during takeoff out of San Francisco en route to Japan. Flight 35 left at 11:35 a.m. for Osaka when the 265-pound tire plunged to the ground. No one was hurt, though the cars the tire smashed onto were not so lucky, and neither was a fence, as seen in footage from local NBC affiliate KNTV. In video of the takeoff, the tire can be seen d…