A plane with a square tyre has landed safely at Heathrow.

According to Aviation Herald, the crew of the British Airways A380 flight from Hong Kong noticed something was wrong shortly after the plane took off.

The captain chose not to abort the flight and continued with the 11 hour flight.

Credit: Aviation Herald

The unusual shape of the tyre is still baffling aviation experts.

The aft right outboard body tyre caused a lot of head scratching trying to explain how the stunning square shape of the damaged tyre came together The original of the photo does not exhibit any indication of photoshopping. Aviation Herald

A tug was placed on standby at Heathrow in case the aircraft needed help taxing around the airport.

In a statement, British Airways said the A380 is designed to land safely even with a deflated tyre.

Our flight landed normally last Friday with one of its tyres deflated – the A380, in common with other large commercial aircraft, is designed to be perfectly safe when landing with a deflated tyre. Our engineers quickly changed the tyre and the aircraft went back into service. British Airways

No one knows for sure how the tyre ended up being square but one comment one Aviation Herald said:

Never seen something like this, looks quite bizarre. Reminds me of the cubes in Portal. Explanations about gas in the tire slowly leaking away, combined with temperature change seems pretty reasonable. Isabell