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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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Getting ready to slam into 3 more buildings.
It's the newly forgotten New Air AmeriKa of the current age!
CIA used them to ferry their 'jihadists" around the world. The plan is in motion and evidence is not needed thus ditched.
Loss of assets are not a cause for concern for ASSholes with billions in black op money.
Probably pulled from the land of mothballs in the Nevada desert for the job. Hence no paint job or ID markings.
Dump them in a muslim country and forget.
Dude walks into a bank in Manhattan and asks to borrow $5000:
"Do you have any collateral?"
"Yes, I have a Rolls Royce parked outside."
"OK, that will do".
So they give him $5000, take his keys, and move the Rolls into their secure underground garage. Two weeks later, the man returns.
"With interest, that will be $5014.32. By the way, we googled your name and found that you're a millionaire. Why would you need to borrow $5000?"
"Where else in Manhattan could I park a car for only a dollar a day?"
Isn't the serial number on the dashboard close to the windshield on the driver side?
So someone that wasn't on the take noticed them.
God dammit, everytime I let the wife use my plane
Weirdos. I just crash my jets into buildings when I'm done with them.
The last active photos were in 2009:
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=TF-ARH
Since those 747 are 30 years old and were put into storage in 2010 and taken off registration 2011 and 2012, i would guess they are on their way to the scrap yard.
Just that easy to fly in and be undetected?
What's to stop a plane with a nuke to fly in and detonate?
They have the air-burst effect and damage. Radiation detection on the ground but not on incoming aircraft.
Someone was on the wrong side of OTC derivatives trade.
Airplane repo.
Stealing Airplanes is My JOB | Airplane Repo ...
dov
MAS Cargo been flying these crates around for a few years. Saw them here in Hkg from time to time, always flying under a MAS Cargo call sign. I'm assuming some variation of an ACMI lease via MH. Since the back-to-back crashes MH business has taken a nose dive. They swithed out the -200s for A300s on a lot of routes also cancelled bunch of flights, I'm sure the drop in China business isn't helping matters much. Air cargo biz is more ruthless than the restaurant business. No shortage of get-rich-quick types who think they can turn a fast buck flying rubber dogshit around the boondocks. These fly-by-night operations come and go faster than Filipino hookers on 90 day visas.
Just another flimflam Asian operation. Nothing to see here.
Dr B, it's often the feet on the ground narratives that provide the most insight.
Probably they were going to paint 'em up, load 'em with corpses, blow 'em up over Russia, then claim they were shot down by Vlad, personally. But the plan had to be aborted--stay tuned.
That it is Malaysia again (MH370-MH17) is of course all a small coincidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d4wPaBNryA
older models used by opium/ heroin smuggling cartels.
once load is dumped it, [donkey`kong flying mule?] is burnt to the ground and left on some deserted make shift airstrip
i guess the drug cartel in malaysia is to hot for comfort?!?
It's probably a rendition plane. They flew some cats out of the PI (not terrorists but some local journalists and activists) and transferred them to a smaller plane in Malaysia, power washed the blood off and unscrewed the shackles and told some local contacts that they could have the plane but just like the shorts on that crappy September, sometimes people get too nervous and decide they don't want a piece of the action after all.
What was it, 2 years or so ago when those Malaysian airlines started crashing that we first started to hear about 10-15 jetliners disappearing out of Libya?
Guess they are starting to show up in the worlds most poupulous mudslime nation.
One of many cites.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/03/11-aircraft-are-missing-from-terrorist-hel...
Of all the articles I have read here...this is the one that scares me the most.
Lucky souls, those that would have been in those seats had the plan got green light.
McCain , Nuland & Her fellow cabals : 'We shot their 2 planes , one over Ukraine & one over Diego Garcia. In order to lessen the burden on our (bloody satanic) souls we gift these 3 planes to Malaysia as blood payment , may the gawd of Torah forgive & forget, amen'
Hmm, I hava feeling the owner is gonna fail to collect th aircraft
Guiness book of records: Biggest item ever lost.
what? you think they keep like a log book?
http://i.imgur.com/UZFQTwM.jpg
Maybe ISIS have purchased them, and are training pilots up for their " Jihadi Airways " launch. ??
#joke
should be easy enough to find out who owns them through all the boeing parts nomenclatures.