Anyone lost a 747? Kuala Lumpur airport has 3 unclaimed ones

[muriel_volestrangler]

Officials at Malaysia's main airport have taken out a newspaper advert seeking the owner of three Boeing 747 jets they say have been left unclaimed.

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]

1. Damn! That's where I left it!

[SheilaT]

2. I've told you and told you, not to drink while

piloting the 747!

Now go back there and bring it home because I want you to fly me to Tahiti for Christmas.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. The one with the Flame Job is mine. They want $10K a day parking fees. They can keep it! :-) nt

[TeddyR]

4. How does one lose

A jet airliner

[hifiguy]

8. Especially one that size?

[pinboy3niner]

5. They're always in the last place you think to look!

[steve2470]

6. geez, I'm so forgetful *slaps forehead* ! nt

[hifiguy]

7. How do you "forget" a 747?

The things are ginormous. Like forgetting a building.

[leveymg]

9. Who can tell where we left it? They all look the same

Damn, you used to be able see the difference between a Boeing and a Airbus. Now, they all look like Buicks.

[pinboy3niner]

10. CNN is always looking for a few

[PoliticAverse]

11. Don't those things have VIN numbers they can be traced by or something? n/t

[backscatter712]

14. You'd think - all aircraft have tail numbers.

I suspect some shady-ass company's going bankrupt, can't afford to keep the planes, so they "misplaced" them.

[Paulie]

29. Yep tail numbers. Here's pics of them:

http://m.airliners.net/search?search=TF-ARM

http://m.airliners.net/search?search=TF-ARN

http://m.airliners.net/search?search=TF-ARH

[pinboy3niner]

12. Those damn Stealth 747s! After you park one you can never find it again!

[rufus dog]

13. I lost a car for five days in college

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]

31. Happened to me also

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]

15. Don't they have id papers in their glove boxes?

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]

16. Did they run the licence plate number?

[ManiacJoe]

18. They ran the tail numbers.

The last known owners were contacted.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. Checkin my inventory now.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

19. Abandoned commercial airplanes aren't unusual

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]

30. +1...

You'll find a bunch of them scattered around Africa, too...

[jmowreader]

20. This is the mega-size version of abandoning your shitbox car at a store

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]

21. Four (cough cough)

Just sayin'

[steve2470]

22. on the serious side, a company in Iceland might own one of them

At least one of the jets was operated by the cargo unit of Malaysia Airlines, which leased the plane from Air Atlanta Icelandic, a Kopavogur, Iceland-based lessor providing planes along with crew, maintenance and insurance services, according to Planespotters.net. Air Atlanta Icelandic didn’t reply to an e-mail seeking comment.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/did-you-forget-your-planes-airport-takes-out-ad-to-locate-owner

[Recursion]

23. OK, at this point: I am NEVER flying Malaysia airlines

How many God damn jets are they going to lose?

[Dale Neiburg]

26. The link gives their tail numbers

All three are registered in Iceland

[JVS]

24. I can see how planes might be abandoned. What surprises me about this...

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]

25. I went out shopping on Black Friday and forgot where I parked it...

[GoneFishin]

27. Who do you talk to about getting that boot thing removed?

[Codeine]

28. It wouldn't turn over and I can't afford a new starter until payday. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Swift Air claims to own Malaysia 'abandoned' planes

Swift Air Cargo says it has been trying to retrieve them, but Malaysia Airports disputes its paperwork.
...
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.


...
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