DoctaStrangelove wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
FatherTed wrote:
I'd assume scrapped, everything will be waterfucked, and stress from impact etc would prob mean the entire thing has to be scanned very finely.
But i have no experience with this, it just does look a bit... fucked
Those were my thoughts as well, just wanted to see if usmarine had any experience with the issue. The plane is worth an awful lot after all.
And it also appears to be relatively intact. Sure they would need to replace a few things, but the chassis seems to be fine and that's the biggest part.
IIRC from RAF work ex days, every single componant as part of the chassis has a stress tolerance - exceed it and it becomes unsafe (obv).
Now it was a verrry fine landing, but i'm sure that plane went through a lot of stress in the impact, and losing its engines. not sure though.
But yeah, aren't jets this size like 40-50mil $ a pop?