They should just scrape this airplane instead of putting it back on service.
Most probably they will retire this plane or sell it off second-hand.
Will avoid taking Airbus 330 for the Shanghai route or take other airlines for this route.
My life is more important than their profitability targets for their shareholders.
That should not be too much problem to put the plane back into service. It will still cost a couple of millions to repair, but a new plane is $100 million or so, and its within the capability of Airbus and ST to repair it. The questions to be answered are:
1) Is the engine damaged? One of them is resting on the tarmac, and is the pylon holding the engine to the wing damaged too.
2) How bad was the retracted gear damage. Did it go all the way into the avionics bay and damage the structure?
3) The front landing gear door appears to have taken the brunt of the weight, how bad was it damaged.
4) the front of the plane crushed some equipment on its way down to the tarmac, how bad was this part damaged
5) Did the entry door of the plane get ripped off the hinge when the plane sank belong the aerobridge?
Either way, some one is going to lose their job over this. If they intended to raise and lower the front landing gear to see whether it retracts properly or not, they have to tow it to the hanger and raise it on jacks to do this. If they were just hooking it up to a monitorng system to do a system check, they need to put the locking pin in place so the wheel does not retract like it did.