Wheel Falls Off United Airlines Boeing 777 Shortly After Takeoff in San Francisco

Buffy Bartley, a flight attendant based at San Francisco International Airport, shared with CNN a video she took from the airport's employee parking lot that shows damaged vehicles after a tire fell from a United Airlines flight during takeoff.


Bartley was walking over to her car when she saw airport employees with their cell phones out taking pictures and video of the debris. "It looked like there was clearly a lot of damage," she said. "To me, at first glance, it looked like a car got burned," she added.



Bartley learned from onlookers that the object fell from the sky about 5 minutes before she arrived.


She was parked about 8 cars down from where the tire struck. "It's a massive parking lot and so I was a little shaken up because I was parked so close to where this happened," she said.