Seventy million bucks?
If the repair costs are that much why not just turn the bloody
thing into a hangar queen?
It's an insurrance carrier call and not an airline call.
It get's really dicy on older equipment where the fleet need would just as soon do without, or, spooked customers refuse to ride on a plane that was so unlucky.
Sometimes some interesting salvage operations happen where the plane is deemed a hazard to ships or other planes and it needs to have emergency trimming of the bits in the way using explosive charges or cutting torches rather than undoing those hard to get at bolts
