“The photo appears genuine, but I’m unsure how such a thing would happen, exactly,” author and pilot Patrick Smith told MailOnline. “The tyre deflated and the subsequent rotation caused it to fold in on itself in four symmetrical segments.”
A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman told the paper: “It is a curious one. Not seen anything like it before.”
Some people suggested that the high altitude may have been the cause of its strange collapse, according to GetWestLondon.
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