Why would any airline want to fly the extra structural weight on every single plane they have just to avoid very rare occurances like this? It sounds like the insurance company might have already decided to right off this plane.
I can't see as how it would be all that mutch
extra weight...all we're talhing about, are some
extra struts that fo from the planes mainframe,
that can be extended out from the planes skin
through access panels for a crane to attach on to.