Malaysia airport: Will the owner of jumbo jets dumped on our runway please come forward

Abandoned: two of the three Boeing 747 planes
Reuters
Rachel Blundy10 December 2015

A Malaysian airport has advertised for the owner of three dumped jumbo jets to remove them from its runway.

The Boeing 747-200F aircrafts were abandoned at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and have been sitting idle for more than a year.

Now aiport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad is demanding their owner come forward, as they are taking up valuable space.

The advert was posted in the country's English language newspaper The Star.

It read: “If you fail to collect the aircraft within 14 days of the date of this notice, we reserve the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the aircraft.”

The planes carry registration prefixes TF for Iceland.

An Iceland-based air charter and cargo company, Air Atlanta Icelandic, was quoted by The Star newspaper as saying it operated the planes until 2010.

Airport General Manager Zainol Mohamad Isa: "We placed out the advertisements because we want to remove ambiguity over ownership of the planes.

"We want the owners to step forward and we want the planes to be out of our airport bay."

If the planes remain unclaimed, Malaysia Airports could sell them to recover debts for landing and parking fees.

Additional reporting by the Associated Press

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