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Old 5th Sep 2014, 16:30
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I think the aircraft concerned is actually G-CEMK that was flown to Brunei, stripped of its engines and other valuable spares and then abandoned by the owners, much to the embarrassment of the local authorities.

If that's right, the story up to when I left there, was that the aircraft was flown in and parked up because of Brunei DCA's lax attitude to parking fees - a handy place for an insolvent company tpo hide a valuable asset. After some time, a group of people turned up, removed the engines and flew them out. It is likely that they were sent by the owners of the engine mortgagers. The airframe was then, of course, stranded. Sad to hear about it being cut up, but what alternative was there? A similar fate to the Fijian State aircraft that was impounded at Subang for non-payment of landing fees and which became a restaurant at Petaling Jaya before being scrapped when too corroded for further use.

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