What will happen to the Airbus aircraft used for Flight 1549?
It will be lifted out and most likely placed on a barge to be transported to a site where the NTSB can inspect it. If they can find a suitable site close by the aircraft may be delivered intact. Same for a US Air or Airbus Repair centre. Overland transport would, at the very least, require the removal of the wings and the tail sections. After that it will probably go to a repair centre for further inspection by US AIR and Airbus. I am sure that Airbus would like to determine if the aircraft can be re-flown (doubtful) and why it didn’t break apart on impact with the water. At the very least they will salvage as many components as they can and re-use them if possible on other aircraft. No idea when they will attempt to lift it out. That will probably be determined when they have a place on dry land to put it. Hopefully that will be soon because of environmental concerns and the fact that the Hudson water probably isn’t very friendly to aircraft components. A museum display is highly unli
