A-6 crash after launch?

Joachim Schmid wrote:
Charlie Wolf wrote:

The aircraft was partially
filled with salt water but the R1820's just kept on chuggin'.
Aircraft was put in the hanger bay for maintainers to dry out, which
was only partially successful. Corrosion set in (duh!!!) and the A/C
never flew again.

Now I'm wondering why the cleaning work was not done properly. Shurely
rinsing out the a/c would have been cheaper than replacing it.

Given the general period of this event, it might well have been to the
fact that the S-2 was in it's last year(s), to be replaced by the S-3.
It very well might not have even been replaced.

MW