[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Guy who owns the thing got tired of it sitting there for a year and sent some former Perot oilfield employees to get it home. You spread US or UK hard currency around in Angola and they could have worked on the thing for a week and brought in all the fuel they wanted without anyone "seeing" a thing. The white guy could have lead a team of ten and no one would say a word. Angolians tend to stay bought once paid.

[FairOpinion]

"Guy who owns the thing got tired of it sitting there for a year and sent some former Perot oilfield employees to get it home"
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I think you are probably right. Just these days missing and disappearing planes tend to make people nervous, because you never know where they will turn up next.

I wish Bush weren't going to the ME next week. It's not a safe place to be and that's an understatement.