Just saw this. 3 737 fuselages end up in a river in Montana. I can’t see the line numbers to tell what customers will be affected, all look like 737-800s. We have had an abnormally high number of skin changes in the factory this year, I’m thinking this will require a little bit more than that if these are to ever fly.
Where planes go to die.
StG
They look like freaky giant salmon trying to jump out of the river.
It looks more to be like Paul Bunyan suffers from ED and his wife just lost her stash of stand-ins.
ETA: On second thought, I shoulda gone with the Jolly Green Giant, eh?
See… This is why I spell the number, as in ‘Three 737 fuselages…’ I misread it as 3,737 fuselages! :eek:
I keep telling you guys it’s safer to fly than to take the train.
They should just haul them aways into the woods, out of sight, and sell or rent them to people who will be glad to live there.
Here again is a link that I posted in another thread just a day or two ago, about a guy who is doing just that. Lots of cool photos too!
I think so many people will want to live like that, they can have a bidding war for buyers or tenants. Those wrecked fuselages will be paid off very quickly.
That train never even went to the plane. What a scam.
Looks like more or a water birth to me.
But if you live on a plane in the middle of the woods, wouldn’t you he afraid that snakes might take up residence in it?
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I have had it…”
Damn Sandworms! Once you have them, they’re near impossible to get rid of…
BTW, racer72, I’ve been kicking myself for leaving Aerospace. I love planes and being around planes. I miss going to the office and breathing in a nice snootful of burning kerosene. My current job allows me to telecommute, and I like the people I work with. It’s a good gig. But if I got a call saying, ‘Hey Johnny. Come work around airplanes with us,’ I’d give serious though to going for it.
Having lived where Lockheed built airplanes and Rockwell built Space Shuttles, I know the ups and downs of the Aerospace industry. My neighbours worked at those places, and they were always being laid off. But they were paid well, and knew to plan for the inevitable. They knew they’d get back to work soon enough. I can’t help but cast an envious eye at people who work in the industry.
It looks like the new American Airlines livery. Not to be confused with delivery.
Wouldn’t those fuselages be scrapped rather than “reworked”? Seems unlikely Boeing would try to market those three. I’ve seen auto racks that have derailed, and the cars were simply scrapped because of insurance issues downstream.
That was my thought. I’ve noticed that General Aviation aircraft that have a damage history do not fetch as much on the market as airplanes with a clean record – even when the damage was completely (and professionally, obviously) repaired decades ago. ‘This will go on your permanent record.’ Certainly there have been ‘heavies’ that have been severely damaged that have been repaired and returned to service. I’ve seen pictures of planes much more damaged than these that have been repaired to rejoin the fleet. But if I were an airline, I’d have to get a helluva discount to buy a damaged-and-repaired airframe.
Depending on how bad the damage is, it might be useful for Boeing to repair them and use them for their own purposes, or use them as test-beds or re-work them into special-purpose aircraft. The liability would be lessened, as Boeing is unlikely to sue itself.
The official word here at work is “Don’t say anything to anybody”. The unofficial word is 3 days of no airplanes to work on for each assembly line. The lost planes will be replaced as new fuselages are built, management anticipates no delayed deliveries in 2014 because of this. I’m going to be on vacation when the down days hit so for the near term it won’t affect me a bit. 5 of the 6 are going to be scrapped, a determination of the other will be made after the fuselage reaches Renton.
Working at Boeing, in the factory anyway, really does not feel like working in aviation. Where I work the airplanes are pretty much complete. To me, it’s just a well paying job that just happens to involve aviation. I just spent 2 hours troubleshooting the in flight video system on passenger seats. I just hope the skinned knuckles are worth it to a passenger on this plane one day. When I originally hired in at Boeing, I worked on US Navy hydrofoils. Personally, if I had my choice of a career, it would have been in auto racing. Unfortunately, that doesn’t pay near as well as working for the Lazy B.