Originally Posted by
Firewind
Whatever they do to the Ethiopian plane, it will have to be portable - e.g., done in situ at LHR - else it will be an interesting experimental flight to PAE.
I think it's pretty easy to do it either way. Repairing the plane enough that it can be safely flown with no passengers should be a lot easier than doing the complete job. They would rather do it on site for publicity reasons, but from an engineering point of view getting the plane back to Everett shouldn't be that hard.