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The_Goat
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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: Engineless Airbus in BOM - Which one? |
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There is a white aircraft, looking like an A300/A310 in this picture, just ahead of the BA's tail.
Which aircraft is this? I thought it was the ex-AI all cargo A310 about to be broken up, but this looks like it is in another location.
By the way, the ex-AI A310 can be seen here, jut above the Jetlite 737.
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Jeh
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: Engineless Airbus in BOM - Which one? |
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| The_Goat wrote: | | There is a white aircraft, looking like an A300/A310 in this picture, just ahead of the BA's tail. |
That's definitely an A32x family aircraft. Red underbelly suggests ex-IT. That's where the rest of their abandoned aircraft were parked, too. |
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The_Goat
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Engineless Airbus in BOM - Which one? |
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| Jeh wrote: | | The_Goat wrote: | | There is a white aircraft, looking like an A300/A310 in this picture, just ahead of the BA's tail. |
That's definitely an A32x family aircraft. Red underbelly suggests ex-IT. That's where the rest of their abandoned aircraft were parked, too. |
Thanks, It sure looks like having red underbelly. But I thought that all the ex-IT A32Xs had been taken out of India?
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Spiderguy252
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On the subject, there is a sizable row of IT turboprops in MAA, surprised they haven't ended up with other carriers already, as they're quite new builds at the end of the day.
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| Is that Mallya's private 319? |
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Nis
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| The_Goat wrote: |
There is a white aircraft, looking like an A300/A310 in this picture, just ahead of the BA's tail.
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That is VT-VJM - Kingfisher Airlines Airbus A319-133 CJ, gathering dust.
Here is a picture of it that I took a few months back.
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The_Goat
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a picture of it that I took a few months back.
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Thanks for the pic. My God, that poor bird is in a bad shape. The patches near the wing root and in the APU area suggest that it too has been cannibalised.
Bloody Mallya!
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HAWK21M
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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The preservation schedule is just not being followed, which is unprofessional and disapointing.
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Nis
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| Why don't they sell it off (this and other private jets of VJM)? Something is better than nothing right. Plus, I am sure this CJ is not sitting free of cost on this remote stand. So why make the hole in your pocket bigger and bigger everyday? |
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Spiderguy252
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Nis wrote: | | Why don't they sell it off (this and other private jets of VJM)? Something is better than nothing right. Plus, I am sure this CJ is not sitting free of cost on this remote stand. So why make the hole in your pocket bigger and bigger everyday? |
Just like some of their ATRs/320s/332s/345s, incorrect mx records might be the case. Also remember that the A319CJ market is quite the niche too.
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| Nis wrote: | | Why don't they sell it off (this and other private jets of VJM)? Something is better than nothing right. Plus, I am sure this CJ is not sitting free of cost on this remote stand. So why make the hole in your pocket bigger and bigger everyday? |
It's quite possible these are stuck in the innumerable court cases and VJM is using his muscle to drag the cases on. Most of these a/c are leased and VJM is probably not the owner, but the lessor cannot take them back pending the court case (as the lessor's probably filed a case for recovery of a/c due to non-payment of lease amount)!
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| Nis wrote: | | The_Goat wrote: |
There is a white aircraft, looking like an A300/A310 in this picture, just ahead of the BA's tail.
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That is VT-VJM - Kingfisher Airlines Airbus A319-133 CJ, gathering dust.
Here is a picture of it that I took a few months back.
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On the brighter side, why dont they transport this bird to the Juhu garden ? |
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HAWK21M
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Nimish wrote: | | Nis wrote: | | Why don't they sell it off (this and other private jets of VJM)? Something is better than nothing right. Plus, I am sure this CJ is not sitting free of cost on this remote stand. So why make the hole in your pocket bigger and bigger everyday? |
It's quite possible these are stuck in the innumerable court cases and VJM is using his muscle to drag the cases on. Most of these a/c are leased and VJM is probably not the owner, but the lessor cannot take them back pending the court case (as the lessor's probably filed a case for recovery of a/c due to non-payment of lease amount)! |
Thats the problem with the legal system....time delays leading to the ruin of unpreserved aircraft such that a few yrs later these machines lose all value and are scrapped.
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