Narrative:

We took off and blew number 3 main tire. We had no idea what happened. Tower was told that there was FOD on the runway from aircraft behind us that took off. Less than 60 minutes after we took off [company] maintenance sent a letter to mechanics [to our destination] to inspect the aircraft upon arrival. We were never told of this problem. When we landed we did a normal landing and taxi to the gate. When we arrived we were met by the gate agent when she informed us what had happened. That was the first we heard of it. The first officer (first officer) and I went outside and saw the damage. Several dents under the wing and an exploded tire. The aircraft was taken out of service and the return flight cancelled. Needless to say I am not happy with [the company] handling this situation. We should have been notified so we could properly prepare for a safe landing. We could have made plans for flaps 40 landing with minimal braking. I would have also had fire trucks standing by in case the other tire blew on landing. The communication between ATC should have found its way to us. I called the [duty manager]; dispatcher and [maintenance control] after we found all this out and not one person knew anything about our blown tire. This could have been a really bad situation on landing that could have been avoided with proper planning. I believe we dodged a bullet on this event.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 Crew reported being informed after a landing that aircraft blew a tire on take off. Crew was upset for not being advised prior to landing.

Narrative: We took off and blew number 3 main tire. We had no idea what happened. Tower was told that there was FOD on the runway from aircraft behind us that took off. Less than 60 minutes after we took off [company] maintenance sent a letter to mechanics [to our destination] to inspect the aircraft upon arrival. We were never told of this problem. When we landed we did a normal landing and taxi to the gate. When we arrived we were met by the gate agent when she informed us what had happened. That was the first we heard of it. The FO (First Officer) and I went outside and saw the damage. Several dents under the wing and an exploded tire. The aircraft was taken out of service and the return flight cancelled. Needless to say I am not happy with [the company] handling this situation. We should have been notified so we could properly prepare for a safe landing. We could have made plans for flaps 40 landing with minimal braking. I would have also had fire trucks standing by in case the other tire blew on landing. The communication between ATC should have found its way to us. I called the [duty manager]; Dispatcher and [maintenance control] after we found all this out and not one person knew anything about our blown tire. This could have been a really bad situation on landing that could have been avoided with proper planning. I believe we dodged a bullet on this event.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.