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I’ve been in professional aviation for over 17 years now and this is not the first time this has happened. During the 1980’s a South American Boeing 707 was repossessed while at the gate in Miami.

During the 80’s there wasn’t a week go by that somewhere in the south a big piston twin, King Air or light jet was not stolen. These planes were flown to Central and South America used to run drugs then abandoned on some field somewhere.

Africa is no different and the lack of traditional radar coverage makes it very easy for leasing companies to take property back. Also Africa has a high number of plane vandalisms and thefts anyways just recently a London based charter operator had two Falcon 900’s broken into.

Angola is a hellhole anyways I’ve flown to Luanda many times and each time we dump our passengers and then continue on south to Windhoek Namibia for the plane and crews safety.

But having said all that it would be a walk in the park of a would be terrorist to fly this bird away in the middle of the night and make some place like Chad or Sudan from Angola literally undetected by radar because less than 10% of the African continent has radar coverage.

Fortunately the Jurassic Jet is growing less and less common in Europe and in the USA so an old clunker such as this bird would draw attention if it showed up at an unusual airfield at an odd time.