| After the 8,000-pound engine was removed from starboard wing and the port engine, that had broken off the airplane and was recovered from the Hudson River on Jan. 23; the engines were shipped to their manufacturer in Cincinnati, where NTSB investigators will oversee "a complete tear-down" of each one. | |
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A320 on barge at WEEKS MARINE  |
The wing tip is bent but seagull doesn't care.  |
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The Weeks Marine, removed the wings, each weighing 13,000 or 14,000 pounds each. The wings were not too hard to remove with a crane holding them in place. The crew said "It cuts fairly easily; it's mostly aluminum, but it can be time consuming because of the complex structure. There are a lot of panels and flaps that have to be cut free." In photo - right; NTSB inspectors examine the tail section of US Airways Flight 1549 as it sits on a barge at Weeks Marina in Jersey City, N.J. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. |
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See the cut line of tail section, after the stabilizers were removed.  |
National Transportation Safety Board Inspectors  |
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The torpedo-like A320 fuselage, including the wings and the horizontal and vertical stabilizers were transported by flatbed truck throught the streets of Jersey City and North Bergen to Supor Industries, a salvage facility, in Harrison where they are to be stored for up to 18 months. There was a slight problem during the trip: The fuselage couldn't fit under a bridge, so officials rerouted it through other nearby streets. The approximate route in depicted with white dots in image ON MAIN PAGE |
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You can kind
of see that the wings and tail were just cut off with a saw.
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THE JOURNY ENDS HERE
For the body at least - the engines went to Cincinnati.
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