Do 728 scrapped

[Volume]

Just heard the rumour that D-AEVA (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=225571&WxsIERv=RmFpcmNoaWxkIERvcm5pZXIgNzI4LTEwMA%3D%3D&WdsYXMg=RmFpcmNoaWxkLURvcm5pZXI%3D&QtODMg=T2JlcnBmYWZmZW5ob2ZlbiAoT0JGIC8gRURNTyk%3D&ERDLTkt=R2VybWFueQ%3D%3D&ktODMp=TWFyY2ggMjEsIDIwMDI%3D&BP=1&WNEb25u=UGV0ZXIgVW5tdXRoIC0gVkFQ&xsIERvdWdsY=RC1BRVZB&MgTUQtODMgKE=&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=MTc1MDI%3D&NEb25uZWxs=MjAwMi0wMy0yMg%3D%3D&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=&static=yes&size=L), the Dornier 728 prototype, the most advanced regional jet, the plane with the most beautiful cockpit section since the Comet/Caravelle, the plane that is already existing and about the same as the C-Jet just planned, is beeing scrapped at the moment :( :{

Can anybody confirm ???

[cringe]

The same rumor appeared in:

Deutschland exportiert sein Wissen nach China (http://www.3sat.de/nano/cstuecke/70007/)

I read elsewhere that the large Chinese private company that bought the 728 programme last year is in financial trouble and that the Chinese state has moved in to save it.

[AnwarAmir]

Volume; "most beautiful cockpit" ? do you mean by cockpit-section the outside or the inside of that plane, and what exactly is/was beautiful about the Cockpit-section in question in your mind ? :confused:

[AnwarAmir]

and, to be honest, the Dornier 728 from the outside to me looks like a particularily ugly airplane --- while the "beauty" may be rather some hidden internal things:(

and finally, WHY is there nobody who buys that prototype for museum-purposes ? it canNOT be that expensive now ! :(
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and why are folks so eager to scrap such objects in spite of the meagre financial gains ?

[Konkordski]

Does that mean the value of my 728Jet model just went up a few quid?

E-bay looms... ;)