The deadly incident occurred, per The Associated Press, while the workers were performing maintenance on wheel components in a hangar at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around 5 am.
Delta's Boeing 757 jet had arrived from Las Vegas on Sunday night, and its wheel components underwent maintenance unattached to the plane, when the explosion occurred.
A 1996 paper in the SAE Transactions journal explored just how immense an airplane tire blowout can be. “A bursting tire is like an exploding bomb,” the wrote. “The energy released by a tire burst can be equated to dynamite.”
In order to “quantify the burst tire phenomena,” scientists purposely explored tires from an F-16 fighter jet and a B-52 bomber. The latter blowout released 1 million pound-feet of force, or two sticks of dynamite. (A B-52 has about twice the maximum takeoff weight as a 757.)
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