Rich Ahrens wrote:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote in news:eaa459d0-359d-488c-831e-
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On Jan 18, 11:42 am, wrote:
On Jan 18, 9:58 am, "Al G" wrote:

"Jay Maynard" wrote in message
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On 2008-01-18, wrote:
Boeing sent an AOG team
^^^
What's an AOG team?
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"Aircraft On Ground"?
Al G
Yes, AOG is airplane on ground. Replacement parts marked AOG are
given the highest priority of any cargo by airlines when they are
shipped, even higher than medical. Keeping an airplane on the ground
costs $$$, and everyone in the business knows that.

Dean
It looks like that airframe is destined for the scrap heap, wings,
body all look shot.


I'd say it will be repeaired. It's amazing what they fix.

FWIW, this comes from a BBC report:

Judging by the television pictures, it looks like a wreck, says Mark
Knight of AMS Systems Engineering, which supplies aircraft recovery
equipment to Heathrow Airport and British Airways.

"They will remove it as quickly as possible without much consideration
to secondary damage. I don't think it will be put back into service."

Had the wings been unscathed and there was a chance the aircraft could
fly again, a delicate recovery operation would begin, by lifting the
aircraft on airbags, he says.

The more likely scenario, he thinks, is the wings will be removed, the
fuselage lifted by crane on to a truck and taken away to be stripped.

Ha, ha, so much he knew ! Virtually all of it contradicted by the
facts.
Gilbert