{"id":217210,"date":"2025-05-14T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-returns-service-hot-brakes-fire-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:03:23","slug":"southwest-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-returns-to-service-after-hot-brakes-cause-fire-in-las-vegas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=217210","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 Returns To Service After Hot Brakes Cause Fire In Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out due to overheated brakes when a         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> Boeing 737 MAX 8 landed in Las Vegas on May 9, 2025. According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/avherald.com\/h?article=527a132d&#038;opt=0\" >The Aviation Herald<\/a>, the fire caused both left main landing gear tires to explode. The damaged tires were replaced, and the aircraft has since returned to service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two left tires have been destroyed as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,938,1009,1529,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737-max-8","category-incident","category-las-vegas","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217211,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210\/revisions\/217211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}