A320 lands in the Hudson River, New York

[eccles]

The aircraft is up for sale now, get your bids in!

http://www.aigaviation.com/aviationsalvage/salvage...

[Burrow01]

"The aircraft was treated with a corrosion inhibitor in the Summer of 2009..."

Is that the aircraft equivalent of "light front damage" for a Cat C salvage wreck?

I did not know Waxoyl did an aviation product

[J500ANT]

Excuse my ignorance, but is that plane likely to fly again?

[eccles]

J500ANT said:

Excuse my ignorance, but is that plane likely to fly again?

Take a look at the link I posted. They've cut the wings off, so no, It'll never fly again!

[thinfourth2]

eccles said:

J500ANT said:

Excuse my ignorance, but is that plane likely to fly again?

Take a look at the link I posted. They've cut the wings off, so no, It'll never fly again!

What if you put it on a conveyer belt?

[Graebob]

Would make one hell of a garden ornament

[tonyvid]

Graebob said:

Would make one hell of a garden ornament

NASA are selling some Space Shuttles at $20m a pop if you want a real talking piece

[buggalugs]

eccles said:

The aircraft is up for sale now, get your bids in!

http://www.aigaviation.com/aviationsalvage/salvage...

That's a nice hole in the underneath. I guess the 'ditch button' would be fairly irelevant at that point

Wonder what people will want it for? Theres talk of an airframe inspection opportinity there, surely all you'd need to know is how much it weighs and what the current price of scrap aluminium is?

[Trevatanus]

Where did that 10 years go!

[Scabutz]

Trevatanus said:

Where did that 10 years go!

fking good point. How is this 10 years ago? I thought it was a couple of years ago. I am so confused by this. I thought it happened when I worked where I work now, which I have only done for 5 years. Mad

[smack]

The aircraft is on display in Charlotte, North Carolina. There were a few museums that were interested in taking it, but Charlotte was picked as they had space to keep it indoors, and it was the destination of the flight, so a lot of the passengers where from Charlotte.

I visited the museum a few months ago, by pure chance as I was in the area and looking for something to do on a cold afternoon, although I do have a family link to the crash as it happens. The airframe actually stood up to the water landing quite well, and you can see the hits from the birds. They only received the engines recently from the FAA, who stripped them apart to find out what happened, and they arrived in crates in that state, and some local aircraft mechanics put them back together. But the salt water has resulted in items like the engines are corroding away. Most of the damage to the aircraft was from the rescue boats running into it, from the ice smashing into the aircraft when they left it sitting waterside, and the engine pylon was damaged when the lifted it onto the barge.