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The notice said if the owners "fail to collect the aircraft within 14 days..., we reserve the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the aircraft".
It said fees for landing and parking were also owed.
An airport official was quoted as saying they had tried to contact the jets' last known owners.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35043937
ret5hd
(20,510 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)piloting the 747!
Now go back there and bring it home because I want you to fly me to Tahiti for Christmas.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)A jet airliner
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The things are ginormous. Like forgetting a building.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Damn, you used to be able see the difference between a Boeing and a Airbus. Now, they all look like Buicks.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I suspect some shady-ass company's going bankrupt, can't afford to keep the planes, so they "misplaced" them.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)A lot of alcohol involved and not really caring about losing it for a few days but damn a 747.
Before anyone freaks out, I drove it to a liquor stop prior to starting to party, realized there would be no parking spaces at my apartment and just walked back. Then there was a football game, then more drinking, then Sunday partying, then school, then I needed the car, prior to reporting it stolen I focused!
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)Four days for me. Woke up in a strange bed, in a strange house, in a town 50 miles away. Copious numbers of boilermakers were involved.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)One of the weirdest news stories ever:
how the heck do you just forget a 747/
THREE of them?
They don't have identification in their glove boxes?
briv1016
(1,570 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)The last known owners were contacted.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)They're usually encumbered by liens, have been impounded for local debts, are missing documentation or have significant airworthiness issues and just aren't worth enough for the owner, usually a financial institution to bother dealing with it. Others are not financed and when the owner or state airline flops they just remain where they were parked or towed until they're ruins.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)You'll find a bunch of them scattered around Africa, too...
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)There's a pretty funny video on YouTube right now that's going to take some explaining. There is kind of a fad going on right now that says anyone who is driving a vehicle and not being paid for it is "traveling" rather than "driving" and you don't need a license to "travel." When you "travel" you do it without a driver's license or a license plate. Yes, the sovereign citizens are pulling this shit, and some of them are carrying guns to kill any cop who tries to pull them over. (If you'd like to know WHY the cops have all of a sudden become as trigger-happy as they are, examine the sovereign citizen movement...the cops started shooting anything that moves right about the time Jerry Kane and his kid blew away two cops during a seemingly-routine traffic stop.
One of these idiots "traveled" to a Home Depot, presumably to buy things. What he apparently did not know is Home Depot had been the victim of a rash of people abandoning cars in their parking lots, and now company policy is to tow any car in their lots that doesn't have license plates on it.
The video is of this dickhead standing in the tow truck company's parking lot demanding that they "return his stolen property" right away or he'll sue the cops and the towing company for every cent they have.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Just sayin'
steve2470
(37,457 posts)http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/did-you-forget-your-planes-airport-takes-out-ad-to-locate-owner
Recursion
(56,582 posts)How many God damn jets are they going to lose?
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)All three are registered in Iceland
JVS
(61,935 posts)is that the airport should have a good enoug record of comings and goings to deduce which hose planes they are. They must have flown into the airport at some point and been recorded as landed. Shouldn't there be a discrepancy between arrivals and departures in the records that would solve this?
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,348 posts)...
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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The planes were last registered in Iceland under one of its previous owners, Air Atlanta Icelandic, but were subsequently deregistered in 2011 and 2012, according to Malaysian media reports.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35068145