21As to whether damage to aircraft tyres, which are essential to the operation of aircraft, may be regarded as ‘extraordinary circumstances’ within the meaning of Article 5(3) of Regulation No 261/2004, it must, first of all, be noted that the premature, or even unexpected, malfunction of certain components of a particular aircraft constitutes, in principle, an unexpected event intrinsically linked to the operating system of that aircraft (see, to that effect, judgments of 17 September 2015, van der Lans, C‑257/14, EU:C:2015:618, paragraphs 41 and 42, and of 4 May 2017, Pešková and Peška, C‑315/15, EU:C:2017:342, paragraph 23).
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