Life in an aircraft graveyard (NOT the Arizona one) – in pictures
 

A friend sent me this, so I thought the Pprune-izens might like it too.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/g...P=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/...8!4d100.673275

Hmmm. It rather begs the question 'How did they get there?'

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...

Rosevidney1

They flew into the airfield that was there before the government sold it for social housing ;-)

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.

...and there aren't many flies here either!

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?

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.

I saw them being chopped (literally) on the ramp at Don Muang in front of the old cargo complex / Bangkok Airways Hanger.