(Bloomberg) — Railroad officials weighed how to recover three Boeing 737 fuselages that were dumped into the Clark Fork River in a Montana train derailment that closed the track for much of the day.
Getting the aircraft hulls, which were bound for a Boeing Co. plant in Renton, Washington, out of the river may take two days, Lynda Frost, a Montana Rail Link Inc. spokeswoman, said today. Three additional fuselages also tumbled out of the train July 3 near Rivulet, Montana, and stayed on land.
"We've never done this before," Frost said in a telephone interview. "We have a lot of heavy-duty equipment on hand to do this. The plan is to drag them up the bank."
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