3 abandoned 747 airliners at Malaysia airport irk travellers

[CougarKing]

Would such aircraft still be airworthy after a year on the Tarmac and exposure to the hot climate there?

Canadian Press

Paging owners of 3 abandoned jumbo jets: Malaysia airport will remove them if you don't
By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – 14 hours ago

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Attention owners of three jumbo jets parked at Malaysia's main airport: please remove your aircraft immediately or the airport will.

Malaysia's airport operator took the unusual step of posting photos in two major newspapers of the three Boeing 747-200s that have been sitting idle for more than a year. The notice this week warns the owners that the airport has the right to sell or dispose of the planes unless they are collected within 14 days.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport General Manager Zainol Mohamad Isa said Wednesday such notice is normal in a bid to recover debts owed to Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, after exhaustive but futile efforts to locate the owners. They are believed to be foreign entities that could have ceased operations.

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[Colin Parkinson]

need an inspection, servicing, fuel tank purge I suspect, would not be cheap. the other option is to scrap them.

 

[CougarKing]

I have never heard of Swift Air Cargo...

BBC

Swift Air claims to own Malaysia 'abandoned' planes

    11 December 2015

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The group previously said the planes have been parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for more than a year, and that the jets had to be claimed within 14 days.

Swift Air Cargo released a statement saying it purchased them from a Hong Kong company in June, and had been meeting with Malaysian airport officials since then to collect them.

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