It wouldn't have been missed (in pre-flight). They check tires before in a walk-around. A tire can hit something in the runway to cause it to go flat, (but) it is not common.
Quotes about pre-flight (3 Quotes)
But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
The close correlation between pre-flight predictions and the actual flight path is as important as the target hit. The paths are virtually identical. The target hit demonstrates our performance. The close match with the models shows the maturity of both our hardware and our software designs.