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Derailed Boeing 737 fuselages removed from Montana river

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, July 9, 2014

By The Associated Press

Crews pull up one of three Boeing 737 fuselages from the Clark Fork River in Montana. —Photo by The Associated Press
Crews pull up one of three Boeing 737 fuselages from the Clark Fork River in Montana. —Photo by The Associated Press

The Associated Press

MISSOULA, Mont. — Crews have removed all three commercial airplane fuselages from a river embankment in western Montana after they tumbled off a train in a derailment.

Montana Rail Link spokeswoman Lynda Frost told The Missoulian that the last of the newly manufactured Boeing 737 fuselages was hoisted up Tuesday.

Nineteen train cars derailed Thursday, spilling three fuselages into the Clark Fork River near Alberton and three more near the tracks.

Frost said the fuselages and their flatbed cars weigh a combined 70 tons each.

The fuselages and other airplane parts were being transported from a manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kan., to Boeing facilities in Everett.

Railway officials are investigating the cause of the derailment.

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