US EditionAir India ‘Forgot’ They Owned a Missing Boeing 737; Accidentally Finds It After 13 Years
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An Air India Boeing 737-200 remained abandoned for more than 13 years at Calcutta Airport. Rediscovered, the CEO of India Airlines claims that the aircraft had fallen into oblivion. ...
‘We didn’t even know we owned it’: How a 1982-era Boeing survived as ‘ghost plane’ at Kolkata airport; 13 years of parking costs Air India nearly Rs 1 crore
An astonishing oversight has surfaced as Air India discovered a 43-year-old Boeing 737, parked at Kolkata airport for over a decade, was still on its books, despite having no record of its existence. This forgotten jet, finally removed, highlights a significant lapse during the airline's ...
Air India CEO Wilson describes the sale of the "Baby Boeing" as unusual: For more than 40 years the 737-200 was unnoticed in Calcutta - now the airline has finally sold the machine.
Air India "rediscovered" a 43-year-old Boeing 737-200, forgotten for more than ten years in a remote area of Kolkata Airport, to the point of having disappeared from the company's official records before its privatization. The aircraft, registered VT-EHH, is a Boeing 737-2A8F of the "Baby Boeing" family, delivered to Indian Airlines in 1982 before being operated by Alliance Air and then converted into a cargo aircraft on behalf of Indian Post in…
Air India discovers lost pre-privatisation B737-200(F)
Air India (AI, Delhi International) has discovered a B737-200(F) that was parked in Kolkata and lost from the airline’s registers before its privatisation and acquisition in 2022 by Tata Sons, chief executive Campbell Wilson revealed. Abandoned for 13 years, VT-EHH (msn 22863) was repeatedly left out of Air India’s internal records and was not factored in during the valuation of Tata’s acquisition. It was not found until Kolkata airport administ…
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