Pictures Silverback DC-8 impounded at EBBR

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 10 Nov 2005, 01:01

Bruspotter wrote:

Stephen:
Damn you you lucky guy! i wish it was impounded outside like the AN124 now that would be cool lol BRU-The Graveyard Airport icon_lol.gif

REALLY? might be nice or cool for maybe a month , until you have taken your pics. But as you might know...airports (or graveyards----look to Marana Pinal Park (Arizona---(Evergreen)) and some others) , airports with lots of stranded/grounded broken or illegal aircrafts , don't attract much new airlines...they distract them...it just isn't good commercial.

You get what I mean? It just doesn't fit. (now don't think I'm mad at you ha... BTW...have a nice holiday )

The fact that Marana & Mojave have little or no commercial airline service has a lot more to do with the fact that they are in the desert, than with the fact that they have old airplanes stored...

teddybAIR · Post by **teddybAIR** » 10 Nov 2005, 13:04

Agree with you Buzz,

The decision of an airline whether or not to serve a certain destination depends among others on the expected return, but I cannot imagine that an airline would take the amount of impounded aircraft at the destination airport into account when making the decision.

bAIR

RadarContact · Post by **RadarContact** » 09 Jan 2006, 20:34

Today, i saw that the DC8 is no longer parked outside the Sabena Technics hangar. Has it left EBBR or is it still somewhere around the airport?

Bilboone · Post by **Bilboone** » 09 Jan 2006, 20:57

It's in the Lufthansa Hangar

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 09 Jan 2006, 22:08

I saw it this week parked on the tarmac in front of the Lufthansa hangar, with the engine cowlings opened.

Koen

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 09 Jan 2006, 22:45

I did a little search, The DC-8 was on the tarmac in front of the lufthansa hangar on friday evening (when I saw it).

Koen

Dreamflight · Post by **Dreamflight** » 24 Mar 2006, 07:44

Can somebody confirm if the DC-8 from Silverback will leave BRU on friday 24th March ?

regi · Post by **regi** » 24 Mar 2006, 10:26

I have no time for a suicide attempt by watching the silverback depart.
Maybe tomorrow on the Kagama news: "DC-8 crashed after sabotage by belgian technicians"

Tommypilot · Post by **Tommypilot** » 24 Mar 2006, 10:43

Yesterday, she still stood at LH Technics.

Today, she seems to be gone yes.

Regards,

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 24 Mar 2006, 10:59

There has just been a press release by Belga:

she's gone, back to the African bush.

Airbus330lover · Post by **Airbus330lover** » 24 Mar 2006, 11:47

airborne 08:06 local.
And.... normally outside european airspace now

regi · Post by **regi** » 24 Mar 2006, 12:18

never see her again

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 24 Mar 2006, 13:49

Did anybody actually see it depart? Or was it shipped to Africa in crates?

Filip146 · Post by **Filip146** » 24 Mar 2006, 15:36

It departed rwy 07R at about 655z/755LT with alot of noise and smoke!!

A_lexander · Post by **A_lexander** » 24 Mar 2006, 16:03

Just the tires.....and the old and dirty panel of the 3de officer explaines why it's grounded. It's a shame....shuch a beautiful aircraft deservse a lot more than that poor maintance.

A_lexander · Post by **A_lexander** » 24 Mar 2006, 16:06

glad she left!

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 24 Mar 2006, 17:11

RYR8023 wrote:Does anyone know under which flightnumber it departed ? And destination ?

Won't be a surprise if I say Kigali is the (final) destination.

Rgrds S

jal · Post by **jal** » 24 Mar 2006, 18:12

According De Standaard (in Dutch) the plane left Zaventem.

Like I already mentionned earlier, now we know how the government got the release of the SNBA A330. Hypocritical and weak like always.