http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/aviation/malaysia-aviation-airport-abandoned-aircraft/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/aviation/malaysia-aviation-airport-abandoned-aircraft/index.html
Very suspicious to my mind. One does not simply abandon three 747s, even if you have to go out if business. You would sell them ASAP for the capital. If I were a potential buyer, I wouldn't touch them with a 50 foot tow bar. I would be afraid of what I might inside them...
Ya see-that's why you always get full contact information for the buyer, and register the fact that your plane is sold with the airplane tag agency.
In reply to WildScotsRacing:
Yeah, I read the ebola filled plane Clancy book too. 
Surely they have some identification numbers somewhere on them that would point to who owns them.
I'm thinking ISIS or similar had them waiting to have a 9-11 do-over but without all the pesky interference by passengers or cops and such.
Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote: Surely they have some identification numbers somewhere on them that would point to who owns them.
An Icelandic company sold them years ago and they have changed hands several times since. Lol- open title planes.
Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote: Surely they have some identification numbers somewhere on them that would point to who owns them.
from the article said: Several aviation databases list the Boeings -- identified by their call signs TF-ARN, TF-ARH, TF-ARM -- as belonging to leasing firm Air Atlanta Icelandic, but that company says it sold them in 2008.
It's funny CNN has an item on them now. these pics have been on click bait sites for months with titles like 'Abandoned airports you wont belive'
In reply to Ian F:
Ah, my phone only let me read the first couple paragraphs.
You lose some, you find some, it all works out in the end.
It is not that uncommon for a company to go bankrupt and have the pilots walk away from the airplanes. It happened in Marquette Michigan. http://uppermichiganssource.com/news/local/russian-made-military-plane-has-an-owner?id=542391
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704334604575339463022126910
What is the challenge rule for placing 12 GE turbofan engines onto an entry?
pinchvalve wrote: What is the challenge rule for placing 12 GE turbofan engines onto an entry?
I vote a free entry
pinchvalve wrote: What is the challenge rule for placing 12 GE turbofan engines onto an entry?
Pretty sure it's self-policing on that point.
FYI, that works out to about 480,000 pounds of thrust (at sea-level, of course).
747 are in huge demand right now, even more then the bigger planes. Somebody owns them, or the frames have so much service required that it was cheaper to just park them then part them.
If the jet thrust knocks over a cone what is the time penalty? Or better yet what is a melted come worth?
As long as the base of the melted cone is still in the chalk square, there's no penalty.
itsarebuild wrote: If the jet thrust knocks over the timing trailer, ingests all the cones, and melts the course what is the time penalty? Or better yet what is a melted come worth?
Minor adjustment for accuracy
Are pod racers challenge-eligible?
DrBoost wrote: I'm thinking ISIS or similar had them waiting to have a 9-11 do-over but without all the pesky interference by passengers or cops and such.
If they had that kind of money I'm sure they'd find more "productive" ways to use it. Unlabeled mystery aircraft, when they're not new planes being delivered, are usually owned by governments or corporations who don't want anyone to notice what they're doing with the plane, or don't want anyone to notice that they own a plane, respectively.
GameboyRMH wrote: If they had that kind of money I'm sure they'd find more "productive" ways to use it.
They do have that kind of money:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/06/news/isis-funding/
$2 billion in 2014.
In reply to GameboyRMH:
Just paint them up as Pan Am jets and call them vintage. Hipsters will go crazy to have them land in their cities solving several problems at once.
dculberson wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: If they had that kind of money I'm sure they'd find more "productive" ways to use it.They do have that kind of money: http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/06/news/isis-funding/ $2 billion in 2014.
The initial cost of each one of these planes would eat up almost 1/5th of their "GDP." They need all that money for waging war and keeping their awful theocratic state from imploding.
Well, Libya left a few C-130s in Marietta for the last 40 years: http://jalopnik.com/5785891/libyas-planes-are-rotting-in-georgia
DrBoost wrote: I'm thinking ISIS or similar had them waiting to have a 9-11 do-over but without all the pesky interference by passengers or cops and such.
747s are not the easiest to fly. ISIS resistant built in.
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