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Old 7th Mar 2010, 14:30
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Semaphore Sam
 
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I recall about 7-8 years ago walking among parked L-1011's in Taif, about 10-15 of them, the engines clacking away in the wind; maybe a year ago 2 or 3 workers were assigned to start dismantling one of them (they had been stored there since...1995 or so?). They cut into a wing, and started a fire which killed them. No one had thought to check if they had been de-fueled after being parked, which they hadn't. They weren't preserved or stripped, just taxied into parking and abandoned, and they sit like that to this day!
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