Federal investigators plan to move the mangled remains of an Asiana jumbo jet in the next day or two, clearing an unwelcome reminder of the perils of air travel that has greeted passengers flying in and out of the San Francisco International Airport for the past five days.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are determining which parts of the Boeing 777 need to be transferred to the agency’s laboratory in Washington and will then release the rest of the airplane for removal, NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway said today. He said the plane would likely to be moved by the weekend. The crash of Asiana Flight 214 on July 6 killed two Chinese women and left more than four dozen with serious injuries, although scores of passengers escaped the crash unscathed.
Airport officials are understandably eager to see the charred airplane moved. “We would like to get it moved out of the area because obviously we’re sensitive to the fact that passengers on other flights are taxiing right by it,” said airport spokesman Doug Yakel. Some of those passengers have taken to Twitter to describe just how eerie it has been to see the Asiana wreck while looking out an airplane window:
