View Full Version : Life in an aircraft graveyard (NOT the Arizona one) – in pictures
Phoenix1969
31st Oct 2016, 09:40
A friend sent me this, so I thought the Pprune-izens might like it too.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/oct/26/life-aircraft-graveyard-bangkok-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw
One wonders how on earth the planes got there. They're not really the sort of thing one randomly fly-tips.
And it doesn't appear to be near any airport either https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Ramkhamhaeng+Rd,+Krung+Thep+Maha+Nakhon,+Thailand/@13.7764782,100.6635976,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x311d63d6bf66c2d9:0xd1cb49320a1d009!8m2!3d1 3.776968!4d100.673275
Rosevidney1
31st Oct 2016, 22:11
Hmmm. It rather begs the question 'How did they get there?'
Jhieminga
1st Nov 2016, 10:57
Other internet reports about this site have described it as an aircraft dismantling operation where parts and materials are reclaimed from the airframe sections. The one I saw was a few years old and at that point the 747 was the main 'attraction' there. I guess that with an increase in scale they also needed more people for the work, and they needed a place to live...
Compass Call
2nd Nov 2016, 20:27
Rosevidney1
They flew into the airfield that was there before the government sold it for social housing ;-)
Rosevidney1
2nd Nov 2016, 21:46
A perfectly logical answer, Compass Call! It was so obvious I disregarded the thought that a city could overwhelm an airport!! They must be breeding like flies out there. I wonder which airport will be the next to be engulfed? :confused:
DaveReidUK
2nd Nov 2016, 22:20
A perfectly logical answer, Compass Call! It was so obvious I disregarded the thought that a city could overwhelm an airport!! They must be breeding like flies out there. I wonder which airport will be the next to be engulfed? :confused:
You do realise CC is joking, don't you ? That's OK, then.
You do realise CC is joking, don't you ? That's OK, then.
...and there aren't many flies here either!
Phoenix1969
3rd Nov 2016, 08:56
They flew into the airfield that was there before the government sold it for social housing
Of course! Mystery solved....I so didn't think of that. Interestingly, I had a very quick look on the street view function of a well-known website and the buildings in the area didn't look particularly new, yet one of the fuselages is of a 744 - so that plane must have been not very old in years at all when it was scrapped.
I wonder if this has happened anywhere else in the world eg HK's old Kai Tak airport?
DaveReidUK
3rd Nov 2016, 09:47
I had a very quick look on the street view function of a well-known website and the buildings in the area didn't look particularly new, yet one of the fuselages is of a 744 - so that plane must have been not very old in years at all when it was scrapped.
Close, but no cigar. :O
It's actually a former JAL 747-146B (23390) with a stretched upper deck, built in 1986.
It last flew as HS-UTQ for One-To-Go, was WFU at Don Mueang in 2008 and the forward fuselage moved to its current location a couple of years later.
Thai Pom
3rd Nov 2016, 09:52
I saw them being chopped (literally) on the ramp at Don Muang in front of the old cargo complex / Bangkok Airways Hanger.