Transporting an abandoned plane is no easy task, even on an empty highway, but imagine a footbridge directly in your path. That’s exactly what this Air India aircraft encountered after being sold and transported near Indira Gandhi International Airport on the Delhi-Gurugram highway. Unfortunately, this was not an empty highway either, as it blocked traffic for quite a while and caused a lot of rubber necking from the other side. Read more for two videos and additional information.
Just for the record, most airlines decide to scrap aircraft after around 18-years of service, and there’s a large industry who acquire their scraps. Some parts are more valuable than others, with most of the value being in the engines, but there is an active market for all sorts of used parts and spares since airlines routinely replace a broken part with a used one, rather than repair it.
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This is a [deregistered] scrapped aircraft of Air India which has been sold off. This was transported last night by the party [new owners]. Air India has got no connection whatsoever with the aircraft under any circumstances,” said a representative for Air India.
