LOST AND FOUND! Owner abandons N23 billion planes at airport
By Emmanuel Adepoju
Funny as it might sound, it seems someone has forgotten not one, but three planes.
The three planes, all Boeing 747-200Fs, are currently parked at three separate bays at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The planes have been sitting on the tarmac for more than a year forcing the Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd. to place an advertisement in the nation’s bestselling English newspaper, Star.
“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 notice read.
“We have 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,” the contact person listed in the ad, Zainol Mohd. Isa, said by phone Tuesday. “We want to clear the area, we want to utilize our parking bay.”
Although Boeing does not make the 747-200 anymore, the modern version, the 747-8 Freighter version is the company’s second-most expensive plane, with a list price of $379.1million..
