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To: MeganC

Why bother to hijack it? You can buy a plane and paint it however you like.

Boneyards are everywhere:
http://jalopnik.com/the-ten-most-unbelievable-airplane-junkyards-in-the-wor-1464369226
http://www.airplaneboneyards.com/commercial-aviation-airplane-boneyards-storage.htm
http://io9.com/the-worlds-most-bizarre-aircraft-graveyards-511526945
If you’ve got the cash (like if you were backed by Saudi oil) you can get a plane with varying levels of paperwork. Park in a place with bad weather and do a little insurance fraud and you can even make it so nobody knows you have a plane.

You’ll notice a bunch of those boneyards are in Russia, if Putin wants a plane Putin gots a plane.

The hijack angle just never made sense. It’s a harder way to get a plane, with a lot more complication and a lot more opportunities for it to go wrong.


31 posted on 02/24/2015 9:41:47 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: discostu

The hijack angle is making more sense with every passing day that the airliner goes missing.


37 posted on 02/24/2015 1:12:21 PM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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