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Malaysia Is Hunting For Mystery Owner Who Abandoned Three Boeing 747 On Its Airport
One year ago, someone quietly parked their three Boeing 747-200F (which as shown on the image below have no identifiable insignia) at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia and since then has decided - for reasons unknown - to forget all about them.
However, in the meantime, the airplanes have been raking up landing, parking and other charges and now the airport wants to not only find the owner, but to get paid.
Boeing no longer makes the 747-200, but the more modern 747-8 Freighter version is the company’s second-most expensive plane, with a list price of $379.1 million.
As CNN reports, officials from Malaysia Airports Holdings eager to clear the massive clutter and collect their unpaid invoices, took out ads in Malaysia's The Star and Sin Chew Daily newspapers asking for the owner to please come get their planes. It has given the "mysterious" owner a 14-day ultimatum in which to collect his multi-ton "lost and found" or else the planes would be impounded, sold or "disposed of":
"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 pursuant to the Civil Aviation Regulations 1996 and use the money raised to set off any expenses and debt due to us under the said regulations."
"The giving of such notice by way of advertisement is a common and reasonable step in the process of debt recovery especially in cases where the company concerned has ceased operations and is a foreign entity whereby exhaustive steps undertaken to find a contact person have not been successful," Malaysia Airports said in a statement.
Malaysia Airports general manager Zainol Mohd Isa told CNN the aircraft have been parked at KLIA for more than a year, having been abandoned at different times. It's not clear who now bears responsibility for the aircraft and any related charges.
"They've yet to pay the parking fee -- where do we send the bill?" Isa said.
But if one has the registration number of the planes, how can one not track down the owner? That is a question we asked, especially since the registration numbers are readily available, TF-ARN, TF-ARH, TF-ARM, yet what emerges is that despite several aviation databases listing the Boeings as belonging to leasing firm Air Atlanta Icelandic, that company says it sold them in 2008. Since then the aircraft appear to have changed hands several times, and the current owner is unknown..
Isa said that storage space wasn't a problem at the airport, adding that the three Boeings are the only aircraft currently abandoned there.
Even more surprising is an update from Bloomberg according to which, the general manager has been in communication with the so-called owner, "but they have not been responding to take away the aircraft. That’s why we go through this process to legalize whatever actions we want to take,” Zainol said by phone Tuesday. “We want to clear the area, we want to utilize our parking bay.”
And while one wonders just who would simply park their airplane and forget it for over a year (or rather just how insolvent this party must be), more questions emerge: how is it possible that there is no clear ownership title for something as massive and, well, heavy as an airplane? Was Linda Green also robosigning aircraft leases? And more importantly, just why would someone be willing to risk confiscation of their airplane, unless of course, the debt on the machine is far greater than the equity value which makes them worthless to the current "owner."
Finally, one can't ignore the irony that Malaysia, which itself "misplaced" one of its own aircraft under far more tragic circumstances and has still be unable to find the disappeared MH370, is the country now engaged in this reverse inquiry. And perhaps just as curious is that it is Malaysia Airlines itself which is now eager to make its own fleet of A380, acquired under far more pleasant times, disappear by either selling or leasing them to some other greater fool.
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Those are mine, sorry about that. I ran out of room at my private airport.
Former Evergreen (CIA) transport planes.
Used to be parked at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus, OH.
I looked out in the yard and mine are still there..
Although I am still trying to remember where I left the little G6.
Dagnabbit, I'm going to have to pull it again.
-Silverstein
I'll be bidding on 'em when they're put on eBay.
There used to be 4!
<--- CIA drug running
<--- ISIS stooge transport
Damnit, I can't vote for both of those.
You are obviously not a Democrat.
Even though the physical airplanes are parked there are 45 times as many rehypothecated derivative airplanes generating fee revenue for some kind of "market maker"
Well, open those suckers up and find out what's inside...
What the fuck is it about Malaysia and airplanes? They lose mother-fucking planes after they take off, never to be seen again, and now mother-fucking planes sit in their airports, unclaimed. They can't get a goddamned thing right in aviation, it would appear......
Dude... where's my planes?
These plans were waiting for their next 9-12 mission but unfortunately two pilots got killed in police shoot out last week by mistake and third chickened out.
I am calling bullshit on this.
Airplanes are not like cars. How many companies/people buy planes a year? I imagine the number is relatively low, compared to say trains, which municipalities across the world buy. Certainly they have something akin to an automobiles VIN numbers. Dont they log the buyer of each plane? Sure, it could have been resold, but again how many companies/people can afford that?
Isnt there some organization like the DMV for airplanes that you must register your plane with?
Seems too crazy for this to be possible.
Yep, the fact that "Air Atlanta Icelandic" registered and then sold the planes, but cannot say who they sold them to, means that to all intents and purposes they still own them because it was their responsibility to alter the register.
A totally bizarrre story though, hundreds of millions of pounds worth of aircraft appear to be worthless, that could only happen in a dysfunctional economy.
This is a $90 million x 3 = $270 million payoff to the Malaysian Government for helping with the coverup of MH17 or MH370. Hidden in plane sight (geddit!). No doubt about it.
These are probably ex-CIA drug-smuggling 747s.
Call Bibi, Israel had something else in mind for those ones as well.
Same thing as Greeks and shipping flags, Singapore + warehouses and Hong Kong for Artifacts. Some countries just have certain "economic advantages" for trade and opportunity, est. 1772. If History channel or a CNBC producer is following the thread, I'd love to see a "storage wars" involving shady terminals around the world. Some of the shit that makes it to lockup would rival "Gone in 60 seconds".
now that you mention it, maybe thats the missing plane right there.
The one on the left is MH370, the one in the middle is MH17'
"Well, open those suckers up and find out what's inside..."
That was my first tought as well. Could be nothing, could be a lot of dead people, or a lot of missing gold.
I would gladly take them away but, alas, even at the present low gas prices, each aircraft's 375,000 gallon gas tanks would cost about $1 Million to fill.
Closer to 60,000 gallons, but nice try. Airworthiness is likely the issue. Without the paperwork, the planes are basically worthless.
Oh come on, just jump in and turn the key...you do have the key..right?
Shit. How do any of the airlines make any money? The ticket revenues don't even cover the cost of fueling up the plane. They aren't all subsidised are they ? Oh well, NFL teams ticket sales don't cover the player's salaries either, so I guess everything must be on the up and up.
The chemtrail funding makes up the difference.
Most large planes of this sort make money off the freight. Passengers are just gravy
It might sound odd for something so magnificent, but old fuel-guzzler aircraft can be worth as much as a cheese sandwich. It comes down to freight rates and charter rates, which probably aren't peaking right now considering the state of the global economy. To fly them, you need to have a charter rate high enough to pay for the kerosene.
Those planes are costly junk now, worth nowhere near the cost it would take to bail them out and make them air-worthy. It's hard even to tow them off the airport, where some local aluminum recyclers could get to work.
Meanwhile, I cannot park overnight at a Wal*Mart in Florida without some ass hole cop driving around my car like he's a shark, circling, spot light illuminating me.
Well that is just because you are a black mexican.
Vote for one, clear browser cookies, then vote for the other. (May need browser restart).
I suspect all these aircraft are due for the very expensive "D" maintainence check and the 'owner' decided it wasn't worth it.
"Because of the nature and the cost of such a check, most airlines — especially those with a large fleet — have to plan D checks for their aircraft years in advance. Often, older aircraft being phased out of a particular airline's fleet are either stored or scrapped upon reaching their next D check, due to the high costs involved in comparison to the aircraft's value."
I'm with you, that sounds alot more plausible. I wish they would tell us who the owners are since they did contact them and they said they sold them (not).
Many maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) shops claim that it is virtually impossible to perform a D check profitably at a shop located within the United States.
...and that was before Obongocare.
The 747-200F freighters entered service in February 1972 and the last one was delivered in 1991.
These airplanes are at least 24 years old, and possibly up to 43 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#747-200
You are probably right. If you have ever priced used jet aircraft, the time for the next maintenance is a big, big deal. Regulations says that after so many hours, engines have to be rebuilt, various parts changed, etc. Some maintance is hour based and some is cycle based. You can find some jets that are just due for a major overhaul that sell for less, sometimes much less, than the cost of the overhaul. So then you take some old, fuel inefficient jet that needs millions of work before it is allowed to fly and probably needs an new interior as well and you get to the point where it is better off junked. Then let them try to sell it without the logbook - planes are worthless.
These aircraft can still be used for the Kessel Run if they can do it in less than twelve parsecs.
stored or scrapped.. True, but not usually in Malaysia-
Airplane Boneyards:
https://www.google.com/search?q=airplane+graveyard+photos&rlz=1CAACAC_en...
The thing is the bone yard also charges storage fees for keeping the aircraft. It was cheaper to just leave them at the airport.
Hunh. Who owns the boneyard(s), then?
Do I get three guesses?
Thank you for all you do btw! I am, and have been in dire straits for some time now. Yeah, I know, cry me a river.
Guess I shoulda bought some prime desert land back in the day so I could play rentier to the fkn idiots who commissioned those planes.
What a waste.
OTOH, thousands of years from now, ppl will marvel at the aluminum and titanium 'ore' (hat tip Boris) discovered at the bottom of the Amerindian ocean.
That's FAA. I don't think malaysia is quite as finicky about their airworthiness reviews. I know for a fact there are a bunch of _old_ Fokker F27s flying the Carribean that are held together with duct tape.
Luckily they found my long lost jets. Guess I'll go ahead and list them on ebay "as is, where is" just send me the $$$ in small bills and these babies are yours!
Includes cocaine and "donated" organs?
Air Atlanta Icelandic?
Are they associated with Air Savanna Siberian at all?
Actually, one of them is from Saudi Arabian Airlines ( wearing the SAA livery, only the logo and title are missing ) and the other one seems to came from Air Atlanta Icelandic ( the TF-XXX register is used by the Icelandic airplanes ).
But anyway, these two airlines are well known to be implicated in the .... " illegal " air transportation...
It is the Malaysian Triangle.
Opened up after that there flight disappeared.
Prolly see more planes show up there soon.
Part it out stupid! WTF do these guys have between their ears peanut butter?
How difficult can it be to find the owner, they have to be registered to someone FFS.
This is a shot across the broadside, hey fuckheads come get your aircraft or else.
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I'd rather fly in one of those three than any other jet Malaysia Airlines has to offer.
"Malaysia Truly Asia" Truly dreadful.
I'm just putting in enough fuel to get it home.
BTW, I'll take the one with the blue tail...
CIAlqaeda.......
Al-Kinda
installing GPS autopilot for the next 9/11? what did i win?
Probably going to be used for some intellgence bureau shenanigans. These things tend to just disappear once in a while, good to have reserves.
Like flying into the Freedon Tower, those silly jokers.......
How much do you want to bet this was probably an operation that was cancelled with someone getting a visit from a nail gun, or slipping on a banana peel and falling 40 stories. Probably no one else had the clearance to know about it, now the assets sit unclaimed belonging to a bankrupt CIA shell corp.
I think otherwise this would've been cleaned up in a hurry.
I think it's the Malaysian government telling the CIA to fuck off and stop abusing them
MH370's
geez, thanks for reminding me.
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Reeeaaalllllly thought they were little toy models on Ebay. Can I still get free shipping???
This is a level of incometance only existing in the US government. Most likely these are unmarked planes owned by Obama's DHS.
The real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson & Ron Goldman.
The owner obviously couldn't pay the maintenence cost + insurence. Obviously the owner of a bankrupt company.
United 93, AA 77, AA 11
Now you know...
Bought by Arabia-Arbusto Airlines.
lol...right.
Guido dammit! You had one fucking thing to do, just one thing to do, get rid of the fucking aircraft! But no, you flew them across perfectly good oceans thousands of feet deep and parked them in Malaysia, at a fucking airport! What the hell is wrong with you?
I'm sorry boss.
Probably larry silverstein's.
'ATTENTION U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCY AGENCY - WE HAVE YOUR AIRPLANES, THEY ARE READY FOR PICK UP. THANK YOU"
Let's pull them (out of there).
These things are a total loss...with all of the Silverstain's due to the Mandela Effect and old Pixie dust, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.
Why not turn them into airport hotels? Would be fun I guess.
Let me guess. They belong to 19 cave dwelling terrorists.
With expert level aviation skill.
Well, semi-expert. They obviously can't parallel park.
Bubba Trump
One way Charlie chan airlines . Assets leaving china
"Hey, you can't park here" ... "It's OK, we're abandoning them"
Mailed the keys back to Boeing.
has anybody looked inside of any of the flying coffins to see, smell, or otherwise discover planes full of decomposed illegal immigrants? hey! anything is possible in these surreal times..................
Flunky: "You can't park your car here!"
Dr. Gonzo: "Why? Is this not a reasonable place to park?"
Flunky: "That's the sidewalk! You can't park on the sidewalk!"
Stay off sidewalk... Project 'Stop a douchebag' (best @ 2:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03UkAj0ByUQ
hahahaha that was priceless
Why can't we import some Russian refugees?
These were owned by a company that leased them to Charlie Sheen for the weekend. They weren't salvageable.
the amount of wiining exceeded the normal operation limit of the airframe.
methamphetamine contamination
I'd bet money the owner is bankrupt and these are collateralized, which is why you never lend against mobile assets.
The Cape Town treaty covers mobile assets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_Treaty , I did notice that Malaysia is a signatory. For about $USD30 to do a search provided you have the Manufactures Serial Number (MSN) of the equipment ( https://www.internationalregistry.aero/ir-web/ ). Note this is not just about airframes, but also engines and APU's. Had a poke around some airframes as while ago following the financials of an operator. Interesting to see an how an aircraft can commercialized multiple ways, by component. Probably the airframes and engines are out of time anyway.
I'm sure the CIA weren't so stupid to register these MSN's...
If no one wants them ill take them.
can't even imagine how much the parking fee is ...
add to that massive maintenance for planes that sat there for a year
+ the interests on the debt buying those 3 ugly planes ...
and yes, you're way above their market value !
one of the chinese maggots who got disappeared recently?
you guys all joke but sometimes when you're abroad for business you pick up a few things. Once faced with the reality of getting them back to the motherland its sometimes easier to just leave them behind. I know its irresponsible but dont forget that time is money. And three 747-200F only cost around 120 million.
...just wrinkle them up and stick them in a suitcase.thats wht i always do. no duties. works every time....
hell that's cheaper than the moaning lisa
Clearly this beats Helicopter Money.
maybe someone left them on Malaysia's door as a secret payback for the planes they lost, but they want to be good samaritans about it and remain annonymous
Perhaps they could find flight 370 stuffed inside one of the 747's like a duck in a Turduckin.
You just have to go to this site
http://www.airframes.org/
enter the registration string and see who the last registered owner is. In the case of TF-ARM it is Air Atlanta Icelandic
Yes, easily done.
The hard part is to find out who is now responsible for AAI's debts, what seizable assets they own, and getting a legally believable threat of seizure against those assets.
I suppose any secret service could lease them thru front companies.
Maybe they carried rendited guys.
Shit, there may be shackles attached to the inner fuselage and abandoned hoods!
Maybe that's why the San Bernadino shooters got that $24K - a downpayment!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Atlanta_Icelandic
Air Atlanta sold those 7 years ago.
So, where did they go? Or, who did they go to?
I suppose that is the big mystery.
The Evergreen Air went 'out of business' in 2013 I think.
I dont know who bought them from Atlanta.
Two of those 747 are passenger planes and one is for cargo transport.
Those planes are 30 years old. TF-ARH has not been registered in Iceland since 2011 and the other 2 since 2012.
Atlanta was flying those planes to Malasia until 2010.
All three of them are AAI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Atlanta_Icelandic
Shit, it took me all of 2 minutes to figure out, and this big time airport managetr can't?
Mystery owner my ass.
What bullshit.
Could it be more obvious these are deep state ops planes?
If you leave unattended bags at an airport, the security people will be all over them. But you can leave unattended airplanes for a year before anyone notices?
So what airpoort just lets you land your airplanes, and then park them, without getting so much as a name? I cant figure out if these guys are just incompetent or super shady. Honestly, it seems like some sort of ploy to "legally" get these airplanes into some third party's hands without a direct paper trail. Ooopps.. we "forgot" who the original owner of these are. But since you paid us cash at auction you're the new owner mister.... Calvin Irwin Anderson was it?
Either that or it is a modern version of the scene from Pirates of the Carribean where Capt. Sparrow pays off the dockmaster to forget his name,
Apparently Kaula Lumpur airport does.
It took them a year to realize 3 747s parked on their property, AND they are not getting paid.
BWA-HAHAHA!!
PS - I wouldn't be surprised to see a payoff somewhere.
PPS - ATTENTION DHS: Surplus aircraft that are ABANDONED can easily be used for terrorism. Is anyone thinking over there?
Right, because taking a 747 is like jumping into a Millennium Falcon and blasting off into light speed to get away all in a matter of seconds...
Blatter
Typical government bureaucrats...
Not worried about security problems; not worried about whether the planes are filled with dead human trafficing victims; not worried about whether there are weapons aboard.
Nope, they want to know who is going to pay the parking tickets.
How they landed in the first place...?!
ZIA assets awaiting the next black op.
I'm sure they are overdue for an overhaul of the engines. Probably due for an airframe stress check as well. Probably not worth the shadow they are casting on the tarmac there. But, I'm sure some guy name Mohammed would love a couple of them to haul his future 72 virgins around....
My 747's are all accounted for but i am still looking for a sunken boat full of phyzz and assault rifles....
I sppose the plans changed from ramming them into buildings or cities and now they don't need them.
They are setting up the storyline from this book...
http://www.amazon.com/Order-President-Presidential-Agent-Novels/dp/05151...
How is it that MALAYSIA keeps ending up involved with - or in the center of - so much global intrigue and shadowy goings-on?
WTH?
Did they find the nukes in the cargo compartment yet?
Minot
Malaysia is a Muslim country, with terrorists, with 'extra' planes...
Someone planning for another 9/11, or MH17?
Daniel Hopsicker provides a wealth of information about airplane transfer regulations at Mad Cow Morning News. He rambles but there is valuable information there if you are so inclined to read it.
Yes, he also did some excellent work about a flight traing outfit in a. Florida back in 2001.
Atta boy.
Big four engine aircraft will soon be a thing of the past. Boeing's 777 and the new Airbus 350 are game changers. Why put fuel through four when you can do the same with two?
Sales of the 747 and A380 are tanking. The 340 was here...... and it's gone.
These are old 200's at that. High by-pass engines, yes..... FADEC controlled, no. FADEC is computer controlled for all aspects of flight. It controls fuel along with such minor things as blade tip to case clearance. A FADEC engine is more efficiant at giving equal power with less fuel burn.
Gut these for their parts and hack-um up.
Maybe they're not so amenable to being taken over remotely.
Can't have that.
Plus, big mobile capital items such as planes and boats have a lot of skullduggery associated with title, theft, and the like. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger-sea-captain-...
Geez the CIA are getting sloppier by the day, couldnt they even be bothered to dump them on Diego Garcia with the rest of their crap
https://syrianfreepress.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/cropped-je-suis-a321...
No coment.
CIA assets not needed, so they just ding dong airport parked and dashed.
They know the owner but placing a public newspaper announcement is part of the legal procedure to take possession. Sheesh.
Please check with UBER..... ????
So, is it the civil aviation act of 1996, or 1969?
Those crazy ISIS guys are leaving oil profit toys all over the place. Air Jordans, Toyota Helixs and now this? Oye Veh!
Owner BK'd and is in a protracted lawsuit with a lender that has no idea what they're doing...is my guess
Hmm. Not MH....
Absurd. The crews who flew them in had to sign arrival paperwork and clear customs with their passports. Check the passport numbers and trace the crews? Nah, that would take five minutes.
A tisket a tasket I lost my little 747
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAeduiYkVU
Makes you wonder if they were used in big drug smuggling or weapons smuggling operations.Or,someone planning another terrorist attacks but chickened out?
I talked to the owner of the planes. He said he doesn't need them anymore. He got a brand new 787 from Malaysian Airlines.
Little known Obama program,
Cash for Aviation Clunkers
Attempting to stimulate Boeing's lagging sales.
Back up the wrecker and repo 'em.
THEY ARE MINE !!!!
SHIT - I COULD NOT REMEMBER WHERE I LEFT THEM.
NO NEED TO HOLD THEM FOR ME - JUST AUCTION THEM OFF AND SEND ME THE NET.