Planes, Trains, and Boats

27 Replies to “Planes, Trains, and Boats”

1. Too bad they can’t ship planes down a pipeline like oil, this environmental disaster may have been avoided.

2. Wow!

3. I hope the insurance is paid up. Depending on stage of assembly there could be a penny or two involved.

4. In terms of material damage, possibly the most expensive train wreck in history?

5. These will all be written off – there is no way that Boeing is going to accept these. On the other hand, they would make great, unique cabins somewhere in Montana…

6. Sounds as though sabotage by environmentalists is suspected.

7. Heh! Initially I thought in was ecotards trying to create a coral reef in a river from old airplane bodies.

8. We must ban trains!
   If one accident can be avoided, that should be enough to justify our actions!

9. John, do you have a link to an article indicating that sabotage was the cause?

10. What! Didn’t you realize all along that air-planes hatch from aquatic larvae, just like their smaller cousins, the caddis-flies?

11. Does Boeing have scratch and dent sales at the sale annex?

12. No, I wish I did. I suspect from the form of words used (but no more than that) that sabotage may be involved.
    Look at the innumerable occasions of pipeline sabotage up north. Or the (limited) destruction of large houses in California.
    For solid references one would need to search further. As for the present derailment, a badly maintained roadbed for
    the railway is plausible, as always.

13. Some very unhappy people today in the aero space industry.
    equally bad tempers in certain quarter in rail transport.

14. That is an expensive derailment. Boeing has a two-year order list for 737s.

15. OW. That’s an expensive accident.

16. OMMAG and Al in Ottawa beat me to my comment. Great minds, etc.

17. Maybe Boeing could turn them into floats for a 747?
    Revnant Dream;
    It isn’t that bad,,, the insurance will pay big time and there is quite a bit of very valuable salvage components in a few of those hulks.
    I too would like to find out more details re the derailment.

18. No no no, please I said we must look for the source of the brain train!

19. Generally, depending on where it occurs, it is often easier to just bury the loads if there is no environmental concerns.

20. and there’s SMALL minds…….

21. It’s OK, it’s a green train wreck.

22. “Too bad they can’t ship planes down a pipeline like oil, this environmental disaster may have been avoided.”
    WHAT environmental disater???

23. Wanna bet there’s a huge increase in durable goods manufacturing next quarter? It’ll be touted as great economic news, but it’s the broken window fallacy writ large. You watch.

24. Not so sure Boeing will reject the fuselages out of hand. In addition to wanting to reduce impact on schedules Boeing has standard protocols for engineering buy off in their contracts.
    If Boeing is expecting a schedule reduction the buy off may be more difficult. As with all situations the cost benefit for the cheque signer will determine the result.
    Former Contracting Boeing Program Manager. Cheers;

25. Somewhere in the bowels of some insurance company, the guy who actually signed his name to that contract is having a very quiet panic attack.

26. The cost and time of inspecting the aircraft once they are salvaged likely won’t be worth it. It means more work for Boeing and keep the assembly line open. Likely they will be stripped for parts and recycled.
    You want to bet that the rail company likely put off repairs at the site and is right now attempting to make sure no record of such exists. I seen one rail company propose extremely silly mitigations to their rail line being undercut, rather than negotiate a land deal to move the track away from the river.

27. Yeah, but were the seat backs and trays in the upright position?