Will the owner who forgot his three Boeings please collect them from KLIA / KUL?
Dec 8, 2015, 5:11 am
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Will the owner who forgot his three Boeings please collect them from KLIA / KUL?
How exactly does this happen? Don't you normally have to fill out some sort of paperwork before parking a plane at an airport, especially a 747?
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma...rom-klia-befor
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma...rom-klia-befor
Dec 8, 2015, 6:04 am
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TF-ARH - operated by MAS until 07/2009. Left Air Atlanta's fleet in 07/2009. Listed as part-out & derelict at KUL.
TF-ARM - operated for MAS 2004-2006, last operated by Saudia until 04/2010. Left Air Atlanta's fleet in 09/2010. Frame listed as stored at KUL.
TF-ARN - operated by MAS 2003-2010, left Air Atlanta's fleet on 02/2010. Frame listed as stored at KUL.
TF-ARM - operated for MAS 2004-2006, last operated by Saudia until 04/2010. Left Air Atlanta's fleet in 09/2010. Frame listed as stored at KUL.
TF-ARN - operated by MAS 2003-2010, left Air Atlanta's fleet on 02/2010. Frame listed as stored at KUL.
Dec 8, 2015, 8:52 am
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Already posted here.
This is probably a necessary formal notice before the (airport?) authorities initiate action to dispose of the aircraft for whatever they can get in order to pay down unpaid fees and costs.
This is probably a necessary formal notice before the (airport?) authorities initiate action to dispose of the aircraft for whatever they can get in order to pay down unpaid fees and costs.
Dec 8, 2015, 9:31 am
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There are couple of extra 747s. Any takers?
BTW, comments are quite informative and entertaining to read.
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Dec 8, 2015, 10:19 am
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Happens...
from: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9204524
This is quite amusing. I wonder what KUL made them to come up with this now - after some 5y of the birds playing lame duck and even being engines dismantled on one already. Something along "hey, it's time do renew the tarmac on the apron, but those 747s...."? :-)
Back in the early noughties there was an AN-124 parked at EHBK for years. It had passed through multiple sub-leases to various dodgy outfits in the former Soviet Union - its most recent sorties had involved flying duty free European cigarettes into Kazakstan... needless to say the operators saw airport fees as an optional cost and as soon as they had made enough flights to retire, they disappeared... Eventually Antonov itself stepped in, flew in a new set of engines, pumped up the tyres and flew it home.
This is quite amusing. I wonder what KUL made them to come up with this now - after some 5y of the birds playing lame duck and even being engines dismantled on one already. Something along "hey, it's time do renew the tarmac on the apron, but those 747s...."? :-)
Dec 8, 2015, 11:50 am
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The parking fees for a 747 would be substantial, especially if it were left parked at a major airport for a significant period of time.
Dec 8, 2015, 12:09 pm
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Dec 8, 2015, 3:54 pm
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Dec 8, 2015, 7:59 pm
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From comments on Yahoo article:
Aha. Standard Chinese business practice - register company in third country, fly planes there, take the most valuable parts and disappear - let locals deal with the rest.
Pretty easy to source this. Air Atlantica Icelandic owned all 3 of these airplanes. All 3 went into storage in 2012 in Pinal Airpark in Arizona. They were purchased by a Malaysia company for scrap price and flown to KLIA. They were gutted of most usable parts, then left by the Malaysia company.
The Malaysia company that purchased the airplanes were actually a China group. They shut down and disappeared back to China. Won't find them. Pretty common practice. Jakarta Airport has 40 abandoned airplanes.
The newspaper notices are required by law to remove the airplanes. The law was written in 1969 when newspaper notices were required by law.
The Malaysia company that purchased the airplanes were actually a China group. They shut down and disappeared back to China. Won't find them. Pretty common practice. Jakarta Airport has 40 abandoned airplanes.
The newspaper notices are required by law to remove the airplanes. The law was written in 1969 when newspaper notices were required by law.
Dec 8, 2015, 9:56 pm
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Yikes. This made CNN (USA version), complete with photos of the three unclaimed 747s.