Originally Posted by
VR-HFX
Cool heads and more than a few ounces of luck. So glad to see they live to fight another day.Certainly that airframe is scrap.
The only civilian jet airliner I can recall living to fly again was a Japan Airlines DC8-62 that ditched in fog 2.5 miles short in SFO in1968. It was rebuilt and flew on for another 33 years.
The JAL 2 water landing could hardly be called a ditching, the crew accidentally landed in the water when they flew too low on the ILS in fog, it was not intentional. The wheels contacted the water in the attempted recovery and the aircraft settled, with its wheels on the bay floor. In a weird set of circumstances the water came up to just under the exit door level creating some nice photo ops.
JAL2 - Bay Area Spotters
As said earlier TACA flight 110, a 737, also landed off field and returned to service, even being flown out from a nearby road.