"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"... unless you're a BA 777??

Well, all the parts that were affected by what happened will most probably stay in Vegas (or on a dump near by...)

Patched up.

http://media.skynews.com/media/image...-1-736x414.jpg

http://news.sky.com/story/1646936/ba...e-to-fly-again

That is one heck of a big piece of speed tape. :) :) :)

Just curious what you mean by this? Was the tail removed during the repair?

Changing engines
 

Sometime back Atlas bought some used B747's and changed the engines to CF6's so that their fleet had all standard engines. However It is not something that you see being done very often.

You should have seen the roll it came off... :ooh:

The tail fin was removed and sitting beside the fuselage when I flew in two weeks ago. The bulk of the fuselage was hidden by the big white tent.

I guess it was removed to help stop any wind effect on the fuselage as they did the repair.

Is that a massive re-skin or just where the paint was removed for inspection?

See post #51

MateloIt looks as if they've managed to re-use the door!

airsound

TURIN

Replacing a fuselage skin panel is no big deal - it actually happens more often than you might think after ground handling mishaps that cause significant skin damage.

It looks like they found a cheap previously owned door...
There are memainders of a livery on the lower end, which are not BA

Unless we're looking at a different photograph those "remainders of a livery" actually is the upper portion of the W from British Airways. It looks incongruous because the rest of the typeface is missing from the fuselage in that location.

Volume I think you'll find, dear thing, that the markings exactly match the top of the 'W' in the lower picture....

airsound

sorry - crossed over with Plastic787

.....looks to be airborne as I write on a test flight out of LAS as BA9172.

Yup, it's true!
 

As someone who was intimately involved, I can confirm that 6 months after the incident and almost 45 days in repair at KLAS/LAS, the aircraft departed the field a little over an hour ago. I saw it depart. No other BA 777 scheduled at that time and the repaired skin patches were clearly visible!
Good job everyone and next time you see G-VIIO in full livery operating a scheduled, revenue flight, just reflect for a moment its history! :ok:

That is one heck of a big piece of speed tape.

You should see the one the other side!!! ;)

.....after a tour of Nevada and Arizona, and a climb to FL430, she now appears to be descending into VCV (which isn't usually a place for aircraft that are about to re-enter service!).

I beg to differ - I'd think the folks in Victorville would have a great deal of experience in preparing an aircraft for return to service.:ok: