Last July 8, a United Boeing 757-200 from Los Angeles to Denver lost a wheel after takeoff which fell on an airport employee's car, fortunately without causing any injuries.

Other pilots reported the wheel falling to the tower which then notified the crew of the United flight who decided to continue to Denver where after declaring an emergency they landed without further problems on 34L.

 

This is the second wheel separation incident for United this year.

In this video you can see, after takeoff from SFO, a wheel detaching from a United 777 headed to Osaka in March. The wheel fell in a car park, damaging several cars, but fortunately there were no injuries there either.

 

https://x.com/i/status/1765858363529642312

Denver is obviously a high altitude location, which means a higher than normal true airspeed and thus higher ground speed on landing, which to me seems an interesting choice to continue there with reported damage to the undercarriage.

Just thinking out loud , don’t mind me, been a long day.

You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel
With four old bald tires, you were such a good deal
I've had some clunkers, some really bad junkers
But you were just a great steal
You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel

22 hours ago, charliearon said:

You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel
With four old bald tires, you were such a good deal
I've had some clunkers, some really bad junkers
But you were just a great steal
You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel

Stolen and shared with an off-road recovery team. Their latest vLog was titled "Wheel wants to leave the chat..."