# Abandoned 727 at Hanoi Airport **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878 "2008-06-14T00:46:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/1 "2008-06-14T00:46:02Z")
Story [here](http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=71361). Noi Bai Airport serves Hanoi. So, if anyone here forgot where they parked their jetliner, this could be it. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/2 "2008-06-14T03:15:06Z")
Dude, where’s my plane? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/3 "2008-06-14T03:20:16Z")
7_2_7? _Soo_ close. If anyone finds a 737 lying around somewhere, though, give me a call… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/4 "2008-06-14T06:08:12Z")
I’ll take it. You know, if nobody else wants it… ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/5 "2008-06-14T07:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I’ll take it. You know, if nobody else wants it… [/QUOTE] Gonna spend your OSAP money on the parking fees then? It’s a _tiny_ bit more than the full tilt for parking on Bay Street. At King. At 5pm on a Friday. In the centre lane. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/6 "2008-06-14T11:10:10Z")
Wasn’t there a similar story in Africa a few years back? Is somebody doing this for a _hobby?_ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/7 "2008-06-14T11:45:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Wasn’t there a similar story in Africa a few years back? Is somebody doing this for a _hobby?_ [/QUOTE] There was [this one](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/07/jamesastill) that was stolen in Africa and found to have been repainted and being used as a fuel tanker. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/8 "2008-06-14T12:51:51Z")
Man, I always liked 727s, especially now they’re getting to be fairly rare. Re: the Africa story, Some years back, I was working in Angola, and every time I flew into Luanda, there was a motley collection of 727 freighters there, apparently making UN aid flights to the interior. Often the vertical stabilizers were covered in mud, I guess indicating that they were landing and taking off from dirt strips, which I thought was pretty bold for a big-ass jetliner like that. Now that I think about it, during that time there was a civilianized C-130 sitting at Luanda airport under similar circumstances as the story in the OP: had been flown in and the operator abandoned it, or couldn’t pay the landing fees, or something, so it just sat there and rotted. Sorry, I’ll stop rambling now. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/9 "2008-06-14T14:30:55Z")
A 727 is among the least desirable large aircraft these days. Some would have little more than scrap value. ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/10 "2008-06-15T03:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] So, if anyone here forgot where they parked their jetliner, this could be it. [/QUOTE] I didn’t _forget_ it, I _left_ it there! Look, I was out drinking with the Central Council guys. Jeez, you get some of these old war vets goin’ and they get **wild**. Next thing you know, it’s Wednesday morning and I’m sitting on a sidewalk wearing a green jacket with women’s panties on my head. So I’m so hung over and frazzled, I just call a cab. Dude takes me to the airport, I hop a plane for Bangkok and I’m through **there** and on my way to Tokyo before I remember “sh\*t, the plane!” So I call the airport and the dude on the phone says “not your plane, man. Woman says **she** own plane.” Oh crap. :eek: So anyway, I’m still trying to work through the bureaucracy here to get the title to the d\*\*n plane back. In the meantime, if some broad from Viet Nam tries to sell it to you on eBay, **don’t buy it**. And call me ASAP. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/11 "2008-06-15T13:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=633squadron] Next thing you know, it’s Wednesday morning and I’m sitting on a sidewalk wearing a green jacket with women’s panties on my head. [/QUOTE] Man, I really HATE it when that happens. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/12 "2008-06-15T14:08:09Z")
It could be a variant of the Trojan horse. The plane is probably packed full of commandos who will sneak out after dark to get some pho. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-727-at-hanoi-airport/452878/13 "2008-06-16T13:28:28Z")
Does it have a green tennis ball at the end of the antenna?