• Aircraft:

  Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan

• Reg: RA-82045 full info | RA-82045 photos
• Serial #:

  9773052255113

• Airline: Volga Dnepr Airlines
• Photo Date: Sep 22, 2017
• Uploaded: Sep 01, 2020
• Fortaleza Pinto Martins Intl - SBFZ, Brazil

[1400px] The giant Ruslan departs from runway 13 with a very special cargo inside: the fuselage of the Boeing 737-200 involved in the Lufthansa 181 hijacking, back in 1977! This 737 was lastly operated by TAF Linhas Aéreas as PT-MTB, and was left derelict at Fortaleza airport after TAF ceased airline operations. In 2017, the German government decided to bring this plane back home, to be restored and displayed, honoring the events of the hijacking 40 years before. After days of hardworking to carefully dismantle the 737, the fuselage and wings were loaded inside this An-124, while other parts were carried by a Volga Dnepr Ilyushin IL-76. Both aircraft departed from Fortaleza to Friedrichshafen, Germany (with a tech stop in Cape Verde), finishing this great mission and finally bringing the former D-ABCE "Landshut" 737 back home.

Photographer

Aircraft

Petr Polak RA-82045

985 1 0 Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan

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