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It looks like it all worked out. They were able to approach close enough with the big boom cranes without having to do anything extraordinary with the underlying footing. Easy peasy.
Next step is a survey team to assess damage. From there, a repair estimate will be offered, and it's then up to the airline and their insurance carrier to determine whether or not it will be repaired. You never know...
I've been in on the repair of far worse. It might look bad, what with the one engine sheared from its mounts and all of that. The thing is, though, it's supposed to do that to mitigate damage to the strut and attendant structure. We provide shear pins that are meant to let go so that kind of thing just tears off. Same with the gear, it can get pretty beat up, to torn completely off, and everything that it hangs from is pretty "easily" (relatively) replaceable. They'll fix it and have it flying in no time.
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Jeff
'72 911T 3.0 MFI
'93 Ducati 900 Super Sport
"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
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