Last Thursday, a Singapore Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency stop at Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea. SQ16, bound for San Francisco, was ordered by an air traffic controller to pull the brakes after Korean Air's KE929, headed for Saint Petersburg in Russia, taxied near an intersection on the runway without permission. Both aircrafts were about 1.7km apart when they came to a complete stop.
Reportedly travelling between 90km/h and 100km/h in preparation for take-off, SQ16 shredded its tyres in an attempt to brake and avoid disaster. The aborted take-off caused a number of tyres on the Boeing 777-300ER to deflate, resulting in the 186 passengers and 18 crew on board disembarking on the taxiway.