Posted on 12/08/2015 12:39:03 PM PST by SaveFerris
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - Still puzzled by the mystery of missing flight MH370, Malaysian airport authorities now have the opposite problem: three Boeing 747 planes left unclaimed at the country's main airport.
The operators of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) have placed a bizarre advertisement in a Malaysian newspaper seeking the owners of three 747-200F aircraft apparently abandoned there.
"If you fail to collect the aircraft within 14 days of the date of this notice, we reserve the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the aircraft" under Malaysian regulations, said the ad which ran in Monday's edition of The Star.
The notice was addressed to the "untraceable owner" of the planes.
Zainol Mohd Isa, general manager of Malaysia Airports (Sepang), which operates the facility, said the airport had been trying to contact the planes' last known owners.
He said they were "international" and not Malaysian, but declined to give further details.
"I don’t know why they are not responding. There could be many reasons. Sometimes it could be because they have no money to continue operations," Zainol said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
By parking it in Kuala Lumpur when you normally only do business in Europe, for example. Drop of passengers on Berlin, buy fuel and take off again.
In plain sight of course just as they did with those three birds.
I will bet the engines are run out and thats the reason they got parked.
Just turn on the windshield wipers. He’ll let go after a couple of passes.
Dont have them? Think a steep left turn would do it.
Lets have a FR donation drive to buy one of those 747s! We could park it with JimRob in CA.
Someone on Fox News pointed out that ISIS could very easily collect several for another 9/11 style attack.
Yep
My e-mail to him:
HI XXXX Did you leave any planes behind in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA)?? –Tom
His answer back to me.
They're not mine! But this kind of thing happens all the time. The value of aircraft can fall so low that the owners won't even move them to permanent storage. B747-200s are only worth scrap value at this point. It would cost half a million $ per aircraft just for fuel to move them to the boneyard. Even after taking possession for nothing, it will cost the airport lots of money to get rid of them.
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, there's a DC8 sitting in the middle of an urban neighborhood. The government built a new airport and closed the old one. The runways and taxiways are all gone. The owner of the DC8 just abandoned it. It's now surrounded by houses, shops and roads.
The real story is actually more insidious. Those cars are not (usually) from locals, but rather from expatriates fleeing from (for example) Dubai. The thing is that the UAE have some very tough regulations on debt, and if you are in debt you can be taken to debtors prison. So, what happens is that there is some yuppie who was living the high life - nice luxury apartment, hot platinum blonde from Ukraine, flashy wheels ...maybe a Ferrari, at the very least something at Maserati level. Then they lose their job, and all that stuff (including the platinum blonde, if you catch my drift) was being actively paid for, and the person is left with negative cashflow and mounting debt.
I've been to Dubai, and if you go to the airport parking you will see some (very) luxurious cars parked there. You will notice some of them have layers of dust, and those are the ones that were abandoned by a fleeing owner.
They basically cut the losses and fled, rather than be in debtors prison in what may be considered a 'real' prison rather than a club fed.
The airport parking fees must be horrendous huge....................................
The owner of the (3) B747’s parked at KLIA is SWIFT Air Cargo and SWIFT has not abandoned the aircraft!
http://swiftaircargo.com/Newsroom.html
I’ll take 1.
Boy, what a great present for my Mom. She never got to ride in a 747, yet, and this would make it easy!
Almost as easily as a 777, apparently.
Thank you! Boy, this seems far out of date, too:
‘The first meeting with MAHB was on June 18, 2015 with the Senior General Manager - Operations Services and with his supporting staff also present. Multiple meetings followed with each request for documentation supplied as requested. The last meeting occurred on October 12, 2015 with both the Chief Operating Officer and the General Manager present. Since then, SWIFT and MAHB have been communicating with letters and we were waiting for yet another meeting to present more documentation and information as requested by MAHB, when instead MAHB announced to the world that the owner of the (3) B747’s was missing.
‘Based on this evidence, SWIFT is unable to fathom the reason for MAHB’s declaration that it has taken “exhaustive steps†without being able to find a “contact person†when all along, SWIFT was fulfilling its obligations.’
Sounds like a shakedown attempt by the local authorities.
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