A US Airways Flight 1241, a Boeing 737 plane landed safely at Tampa International Airport despite having a tire blowout Saturday afternoon on June 27, 2009. It appears the nose wheel tires blew as it landed, forcing the airport to shut down the busy north-south runway. US Airways Flight 1241 was arriving from Philadelphia on TIA's western runway about 2:45 p.m.
When the B737 plane touched down and it was starting to slow down when all of a sudden it lifted up in the air and slammed back down to the ground," said Al Pietrowski. "Everything fell down from the ceiling."
The runway was closed until the plane could be towed. A parallel runway was used in the meantime. The incident did not affect other flights at the airport.
All the passengers onboard were taken by bus off the runway to a secure area. No injuries were reported. But on June 28, Billy Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when the US Airways made a rough landing Saturday, and Mays' wife told investigators the TV personality didn't feel well before he went to bed that night.
U.S. Airways confirmed Sunday on June 28, 2009 that Mays was among the passengers on a flight that made a rough landing on Saturday afternoon at Tampa International Airport, leaving debris on the runway after apparently blowing its front tires."
"All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping," MyFox Tampa Bay quoted him as saying. "It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."
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