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Boeing fuselages in Montana river after train derails
KING 5 News ^ | 7-5-14 | n/a

Posted on 07/05/2014 1:58:16 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: mt; rail
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That's an expensive derailment, I would think.


1 posted on 07/05/2014 1:58:16 PM PDT by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

Astounding to me that 737’s are still being built.


2 posted on 07/05/2014 1:59:17 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: FlJoePa

Buffett’s train


3 posted on 07/05/2014 2:00:11 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: FlJoePa

4 posted on 07/05/2014 2:00:30 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I didn’t realize this was 2 day old news. My bad.


5 posted on 07/05/2014 2:00:48 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

We’ll bail them out...No problem..


6 posted on 07/05/2014 2:01:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: FlJoePa

Any Muslims in the area?


7 posted on 07/05/2014 2:02:31 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: FlJoePa

Those are headed to Malaysia Airlines — they’re just testing their ELTs.


8 posted on 07/05/2014 2:02:51 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Repeal The 17th

Looks like something out of a horror movie


9 posted on 07/05/2014 2:03:15 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

60 a month right now

So much for the “supply chain”

That train done did run off the track...


10 posted on 07/05/2014 2:03:19 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: FlJoePa

Should have built ‘em in South Carolina.....


11 posted on 07/05/2014 2:06:12 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: FlJoePa

Flight MH-370’s in training.


12 posted on 07/05/2014 2:10:31 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: FlJoePa

They’re tough. They’re Boeing. They don’t even look bent.


13 posted on 07/05/2014 2:13:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: onedoug

I want one.


14 posted on 07/05/2014 2:13:36 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Regulator

Hm...I don’t think we are up to 60 a month yet. Last I heard we were headed to the upper 40s.


15 posted on 07/05/2014 2:13:43 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Most popular commercial airplane in history. One takes off about every 30 seconds I have heard.


16 posted on 07/05/2014 2:14:53 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: FlJoePa
So much for taking the train just to avoid plane crashes.
17 posted on 07/05/2014 2:16:49 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: FlJoePa
Well, that's a fine mess.


18 posted on 07/05/2014 2:17:04 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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They’re tough. They’re Boeing. They don’t even look bent.

Well the one in front looks like it has a big crease in it, like it was bended.

19 posted on 07/05/2014 2:18:33 PM PDT by ClaytonP
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To: Gamecock; F15Eagle

A lot of that will buff right out.


20 posted on 07/05/2014 2:18:51 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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