No fatalities from what I have heard, which is great.
How soon can they yank that plane out of the drink, blow dry it, and get it back in service?
They're going to have to issue a "salvage" certificate on it now that it has water damage, find a pilot that wants to fly it, and offer discounted flights to get passengers to fly on it! Yeah, yeah... That's the ticket!
“Never buy an airplane without a Carfax vehicle history report!”
That thing is a writeoff. The flaps and slats were probably ripped off, the engines probably torn off as well. What’s worse, it’s immersed in brackish water, and the salt is going to start corroding any steel parts immediately, not to mention every piece of wiring and electronic equipment, not to mention the entire passenger cabin, will have to be torn out and replaced. I’d guess that after they pull it out and let the NTSB go over it, it will be written off and scrapped—it’d probably just be cheaper to buy another one from Airbus, or used from the next airline that shuts down.
Then again, forty years ago a Japan Air Lines DC-8 plunked down in San Francisco Bay two miles short of the airport...and they did pull that one out and rebuild it, and it flew for thirty more years. And that’s when planes were actually made out of metal! :)
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