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Old 29th Apr 2014, 19:44
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Burnie5204
 
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Every aircraft has lifting points.

A crane will be brought in. It will be attached to the aircraft by one or more of the lifting points and the port wing will then be raised up enough to get a salvage sled underneath and the aircraft will be lowered back onto the sled.

This will then allow the aircraft to be slowly and carefully recovered to a stand where the crane will again raise the port wing up off the recovery sled, the sled will be removed and a giant aircraft jack stand (Think of a cross between a car axle stand and a construction acroprop) will be placed under the wing at one of the designated points and the aircraft lowered onto it.

This will then hold the wing off the floor and allow the engineers to begin a full assessment of the aircraft.

From what I understand it is likely to need a new landing gear and engine casing, maybe a new engine but largely the aircraft is intact as it only occured as the aircraft was almost at taxi speed to vacate the runway.
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