Boeing fuselages in Montana river after train derails

KING 5 News ^ | 7-5-14 | n/a

[FlJoePa]

SUPERIOR, MT -- A train derailed near Superior Thursday, sending Boeing aircraft fuselages into a river.

Nineteen cars on the westbound train derailed. Three of the cars contained aircraft parts and ended up in the Clark Fork River. Boeing said the train was headed from Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita to the Boeing final assembly plant in Renton.

No one was hurt. The cause is under investigation.

Boeing said the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train was carrying six 737 fuselages, fuselage panels and a lower lobe for the 777, and a leading edge flight surface for the 747.

Boeing says it has sent a team of experts to assess the damage. It wasn’t immediately clear what impact it would have on production.

Trains were re-routed and the tracks were expected to be re-opened Saturday.

[tcrlaf]

“Hello? Aer Lingus??

There is going to be a slight delay in the delivery of your new 737’s...”

[Moonman62]

Too bad they can’t ship them via pipeline like they can with oil.

[Repeal The 17th]

Are you having flashbacks from back in the 60’s?

[Darksheare]

Hovercraft!

[Ezekiel]

Boeing fusfishelages in Montana river after train derails

[MrBambaLaMamba]

No doubt George Soros is smiling and the Obamabots are blogging the safety of railroads.

[Repeal The 17th]

I was just teasing ya!

[rottndog]

The fuselage on the left is buckled just aft of the cockpit...It’s a total loss.

Again, I don’t think Boeing will try to salvage these...even if they could be repaired, who would buy them?

[GeronL]

They could become river submarines.

Or link them together and make them a pedestrian bridge over the river.

[Darksheare]

Paint them up as perch...

[GeronL]

lol

biggest lures ever

[hummingbird]

"Too bad they can’t ship them via pipeline like they can with oil."

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Or dusted up for illegal alien housing. Think of the children who could fill them.

A little paint, some A/C, curtains and a fully staffed hospital staff to attend to the disease they are bringing over...just sayin'.......

Call it Fuselage City or Boeing du Lac, etc,

[hummingbird]

"Or link them together and make them a pedestrian bridge over the river."

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With restaurants and memento shops.

[stormer]

Really? Why?

[Darksheare]

All new Rapala deep divers, for when you go fishing for Cthulhu.

[setha]

I didn’t know that Boeing wanted to make ground effect aircraft.

[slouper]

Now that’s something you don’t see every day.

[BradyLS]

Looks like some sort of art installation: “Submersible Airframes in the Mountains.”

[PhiloBedo]

Motor-homes!

[GeronL]

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