Originally Posted by
rickair7777
250 feet maybe. 250 fathoms is not exactly a piece of cake, would require ADS diving. So $$$. And hoisting a plane up from depth is not cheap in any case, need a specialized salvage ship, barge, and tug.
They could get the orange boxes at a more reasonable cost, maybe even with an advanced ROV.
Documents that confirmed bad mx would be informative. But documents which "confirmed" good mx are not necessarily definitive.
My post was 100% sarcasm.
It could be in 15,000 ft of water, luckily it's not. Still gonna be a bear.
Also, I'm sure the airplane was a highly polished turd. The only people flying -200s should be 3rd-world s##tholes, and even they manage to put brand new metal in the dirt.