[editor-surveyor]

"Something I am curious about - anybody ever put one of them down in the water before, and kept the hull together?"

It may be a first for an Airbus, but numerous Boeings have been successfully water-ditched over the years, although doing it in a narrow place like a river is probably unusual.

[patton]

More than a little unusual.

Note that they now have it docked,

Tied to a pier.

Man, who saw that coming.