Air India finds lost plane after 13 years
An airline has finally found its missing plane after 13 years.
The Straits Times reported that Air India lost Boeing 737-200 in Kolkata Airport in 2012. For more than a decade, the jet was considered missing from the company’s records.
In November, the airline was contacted by an airport requesting the removal of the aircraft.
Air India paid a parking fine of 10 million rupees or P6.5 million.
Air India reportedly denied owning the plane, but it was proven through an internal audit.
“Disposal of an old aircraft is not unusual. This one is—because we didn’t even know we owned it,” Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson said in a note obtained by The Times of India.
In 1982, the Boeing aircraft was first registered with Indian Airlines before being turned over to Air India after a 2007 merger. It was leased and turned into a cargo aircraft before it was deregistered in 2012.
The plane has been transferred to Bengaluru to be used as a training aircraft.
