TC957 From UK - England, joined May 2012, 347 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 11962 times:
Breaking up the derelict aircraft is all very well but they will need to have the infrastructure in place to deal with the vast amount of scrap metal that will come as a result. Otherwise I can forsee instead of piles of whole planes sitting about the airfields, it'll just be piles of rusting scrap. And I can hardly imagine aircraft scrap metal from Nigeria's hot & muggy climate
commanding the sort of value on the international metal market that old aircraft metal from the dry US boneyards get.
Perhaps they should leave them and arrange a few aviation enthusiat tours around the country to go and see them !
Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2744 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (4 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 11727 times:
Quoting TC957 (Reply 2):
Breaking up the derelict aircraft is all very well but they will need to have the infrastructure in place to deal with the vast amount of scrap metal that will come as a result. Otherwise I can forsee instead of piles of whole planes sitting about the airfields, it'll just be piles of rusting scrap.
They'll probably do what we do with used cardboard: Load it in a cargo container and ship it to China. Helps with your export statistics too!
ETinCaribe From Ethiopia, joined Dec 2009, 634 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 months 2 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 5737 times:
Quoting TC957 (Reply 2): they will need to have the infrastructure in place to deal with the vast amount of scrap metal that will come as a result.
What does typical happen here? Are there companies that specialize in this field? Does it usually pay for itself or is seen more of a airport cleanup/beautification project?
Quoting Spacepope (Reply 3): They'll probably do what we do with used cardboard: Load it in a cargo container and ship it to China. Helps with your export statistics too!
That may be the easiest solution to pursue. Did not know this but scrap metal is one of the top three exports from the US to China, so sure, it can help stats.
The B747 can not be ZS-OOS. That was at Lagos, not Kano. Besides it was scrapped between 2007 and 2009.
Perhaps it is an old Kabo Air plane.
Based on the BBC report, and www.airfleets.net, I think that Bellview B737-200 F-GHXK and 5N-BFX and Space World Boeing B737-200 5N-BGA and 5N-BGB are for the chop.
I suspect that the Benin City BAC 111 will also go.
akelley728 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2105 posts, RR: 6 Reply 7, posted (4 months 2 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 4950 times:
Quoting Spacepope (Reply 3): They'll probably do what we do with used cardboard: Load it in a cargo container and ship it to China. Helps with your export statistics too!
Nope:
"The dismantled planes would be transported to a steel company in the north-western Kebbi state for recycling into other industrial products, Mr Omeogu said, Punch reports."
United_fan From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 7176 posts, RR: 8 Reply 10, posted (4 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 4460 times:
I would hate to see what comes flying/crawling out if those planes when they start jarring them with the scrapping claw!
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bennett123 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 6392 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (4 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 4341 times:
No mention yet of the BAC111 graveyard at Benin City.
Other possibles at Lagos include Chrome Air BAC111 5N-UJC, Nigerian Airways Airbus A310 5N-AUF, Fresh Air Boeing B737 5N-BFQ and Allied Air Cargo Boeing B727F 5N-OTI.
However, it is not clear if scrapping has started yet, or if they are still talking about it.
Goldenshield From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5490 posts, RR: 13 Reply 15, posted (4 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 3230 times:
What about those E-120s sitting there?
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type-rated From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 4397 posts, RR: 20 Reply 20, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 2353 times:
It's ironic that we have a bunch of airplanes rotting in Nigeria while the entire country has had its infrastructure rotting away since the British gave it back to the locals in 1961.
Fly North Central Airlines..The route of the Northliners!
VV701 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 6675 posts, RR: 17 Reply 23, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2135 times:
Quoting Spacepope (Reply 13): I counted 17 BAC-111s and a 727-200 there from a few photos.
Okada Air 1-11s that have previously been reported wfu at Benin included 5N-AXQ (December 97), 5N-AYS (April 05), 5N-AYT (April 05), 5N-EHI (January 05) and 5N-ORO (December 97). They may well b e amongst those in the photo. Another 1-11, 5N-OAL of Oriental Airlines, was reported wfu at LOS in May 96 and their 5N-ENO at Owerri in February 05..
Quoting bennett123 (Reply 16): I can find no record of 5N-RRR, 5N-JJJ, 5N-PDP, 5N-PPP or 5N-OOO since 2001.
5N-RRR was reported as being derelict and being used for spares at Kano on 16 December 05.
The last report I have seen on 5N-JJJ was on a Hadj flight at JED in January 01.
5N-OOO was also reported on a Hadj flight at JED. That was on 22 January 04, three months before it was also reported at ALG on 24 April.
yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15999 posts, RR: 59 Reply 27, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1606 times:
Quoting Spacepope (Reply 13): I counted 17 BAC-111s and a 727-200 there from a few photos..
That has got to be the world's largest collections of 1-11 hulls!
Quoting type-rated (Reply 20): It's ironic that we have a bunch of airplanes rotting in Nigeria while the entire country has had its infrastructure rotting away since the British gave it back to the locals in 1961.
True. The airport reflects the country, as in so many places.
Quoting klwright69 (Reply 26): Has anyone visited Nigeria and see the graveyard?
Youtube has videos of arrivals at LOS with the graveyards in full view of the arriving pax. Welcome to LOS.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Thomas_Jaeger From Switzerland, joined Apr 2002, 2277 posts, RR: 31 Reply 29, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1177 times:
Quoting bennett123 (Reply 28): tHE Al Jazeera item also included a Boeing B737-200 with a blue belly. The reg looks like 5N-SSZ, but I can not find this aircraft.
5N-SSZ is an ex-IRS Airlines Fokker 28-4000, c/n 11190, originally delivered to Linjeflyg in Sweden back in November 1982, so slightly older than I am . Hope I will not be scrapped soon ... Silly jokes aside, does anyone know if IRS still operates Fokker 28-4000 5N-NCZ alongside their five Fokker 100s?
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