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I think that one's going to be one to watch. It's very unlikely they'll be able to lift that thing back up onto the runway. I guess you're looking at at least 100,000 pounds there, perhaps even more once you figure the baggage weight into it. A 300 ton crane might be able to lift a third of that, once you factor in where it would have to set up. There are bigger cranes, but once you get above 300 tons, you're into cranes that you would have to assemble on site. I still don't think you'd get there... unless, of course, you took everything out in pieces.
Barge-mounted cranes can lift quite a bit more, although you'd have to do some dredging to get one in there.
Maybe some documentary crew will film the recovery and we will get to watch it on television some day.
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