We've all left something behind at some point. I've accidentally left some clothes in hotels (and even on planes). I may have even left some gum on the bottom of some restaurant tables (accidentally, of course). But could you imagine leaving a 747 behind? How about two of them? Or even three of them? That's…
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I believe the parking fee is more expensive than how much these airliners cost.
Not uncommon. There are at least two dozen abandoned commercial aircraft sitting at my local airport ranging from DC-9s up to an ex-Qantas 747-300 registered in Burkina Faso.
Completely insane, and crazy stories like this would exactly why I love you blog
I can't be trusted with more than 3 ounces of liquid at an airport, but people can just abandon entire 747s there for years without anyone knowing who they belong to? Wow. KLIA makes the TSA look like competent!
The other day I was taking a stroll through the park and I think one or two 747s might have fell out of my pocket.
Through my ownership of a few shares of a airplane leasing company, I see that is a major expense averaging around a half million dollars to recover a plane from a debtor so if the planes are outdated and not worth more than that on the market or for parts, perhaps abandoning and leaving it to the airport to auction off and dispose of that way makes economic sense on some situations. And in theory they can still recover from the debtor if the debtor has any assets. I too, however, am surprised there is not some sort of international registry where looking up the owner of a plane isn't too difficult for an airport to do.
"I ... am surprised there is not some sort of international registry where looking up the owner of a plane isn’t too difficult for an airport to do."
Might be of no value when the owner is a company which is either bankrupt or doesn't even exist anymore.
A little research shows that two of them started their lifes as Lufthansa Jumbos and one as Singapore Airlines Jumbo in 1980. The tail numbers were last registered by Air Atlanta Icelandic. They claim that they stopped operating those planes several years ago and supposedly the plane changed owners several times after that. The registration was also deleted from the Icelandic registry. What's interesting is that someone seems to have flown the planes without a current registration as the planes still carry the obviously non-current tail numbers. Oops.
@UnLuCkY - You are a feckless idiot. This doesn't even remotely relate to MH. Please take your ignorant comments on a hike.
Why are you sticking gum on the bottom of tables in the first place? That's rather disgusting!
I actually was looking at a previous review while already reading this article and you actually saw these exact plane over 2 years ago! Flying Bali-KUL with your mother.