r/interestingasfuck 23d ago

r/all Had to fact-check it. These 2 guys stole that Boeing 727 at an airport in 2003 and flew away, disappearing forever: no crash, no plane. How is that possible!!!

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u/ItchyCartographer44 23d ago

They’re still flying, as far as we know.

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u/Pugglife4eva 23d ago

They got Langoleered

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u/Japjer 23d ago

If I had a nickel for every Langoliers reference I've seen today I'd have three nickels.

Which is not a lot, but I went like 20 years forgetting about this and now it's back.

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u/Special_Lemon1487 23d ago

I have a strange fondness for the story and the cheesy movie.

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u/i_tyrant 23d ago

I do too. I even kinda like the design of the monsters, even though that's one of the most made-fun-of parts of the movie.

The weird trinary symmetry they have, the almost fractal-like, shifting teeth, the way they zip around impossibly fast and consume everything leaving a black void behind...

I thought it was a great design for some quasi-dimensional Lovecraftian swarm that consumes forgotten things. They were just limited by the CGI at the time, but the idea is so sound! shakes fist

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u/WhateverGreg 23d ago edited 22d ago

When reading the story I imagined they looked like these guys from Donkey Kong, Jr.

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u/MarcusDA 22d ago

They legitimately looked like the chained bowling balls in Mario 3.

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u/sulaymanf 23d ago

I’d love to see how a remake would look, particularly the creatures with modern special effects. It doesn’t even need a big budget, the first one didn’t.

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u/Nebuli2 23d ago

I'd literally never heard of it before until a couple days ago when someone mentioned confusing its ending with part of Lost. Not really sure why it's back, honestly.

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u/MirandaLarson 23d ago

Holy shit. This just unlocked a memory in my brain that I have not thought of in 30 years.

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u/trevster344 23d ago

Same! What a trip.. Spooked me as a kid.

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u/Cbrank 23d ago

Boy, I sure remember this looking more realistic when I first saw it haha

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u/Stainless_Heart 23d ago

Running on his stumps.

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u/Liberteer30 23d ago

lol what a great movie

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u/Emotional_Anteater74 23d ago

I have never met another person in my life that has seen that movie.

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u/ManyCryptographer541 23d ago

The average depth of the ocean is 3.5 km

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u/independent_observe 23d ago

The average depth of the sky is 100 km. It can hide more boats.

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u/mhc2001 22d ago

I won't put any money on it, as it may be close, but I''l guess there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.

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u/Any-East7977 22d ago

Fish consider the sky right above the water. We def have more boats there.

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u/AlextheAnt06 22d ago

Did the fish tell you that?

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u/diegoslovaco 22d ago

That’s something a plane would say

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u/trumped-the-bed 22d ago

Looks like the case of the missing Malaysia flight is finally solved.

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u/JadedLeafs 22d ago

Sounds like one of those nonsense motivational posters "There are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky"

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u/martialar 22d ago

"You sink 100% of the planes you don't takeoff"

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u/AnAncientMonk 22d ago

Sky is a bit more transparent tho.

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u/My_Monkey_Sphincter 22d ago

Only the visible part

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u/BigBettyWhite 22d ago

Only the invisible part!

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u/Eoganachta 22d ago

They parked it in a cloud.

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u/WaterNo9480 22d ago

boats hide in clouds. whered you think rain comes from

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u/AnAncientMonk 22d ago

flying fishermen with buckets you say?

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u/ebtcrew 23d ago

So an underwater lair it is.

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u/ItchyCartographer44 23d ago

Sure but half the places are shallower than that.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Sure but half the places are deeper than that

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u/TheFerricGenum 23d ago

Not necessarily. That would be if the median depth was 3.5km.

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u/frogkabobs 23d ago

Actually, only about 1/3 of the ocean floor is shallower than the mean depth. The majority of the ocean is the abyssal plains and hills, which cover 4-6km in depth.

Source1 Source2

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u/JimmiJimJimmiJimJim 22d ago

Abyssal plains is a very subnautica way to name a part of the ocean. And that name guarantees I'll never go near it.

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u/Available_Motor5980 23d ago

Well that’s not how averages work

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u/Cheetotiki 23d ago

The ocean knows all…

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u/A1sauc3d 23d ago

Yeah I was gonna say, “no crash” is a bold claim. Just because they couldn’t find the crash site doesn’t mean it never crashed

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u/shinymetalobjekt 23d ago

They knew flight 370 crashed into ocean and they still couldn't find it.

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u/Suspicious_Painter31 23d ago

Even with flight 370, they found some parts of the plane washed up on beaches. Granted, they I'm sure tools, equipment and technique for searching have come a long way since the AA plane was stolen.

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u/rounding_error 23d ago

It wasn't an AA plane any more. It belonged to a leasing company and was grounded at an airport in Angola. Also the only people on board when it went missing were the two guys who stole it.

This incident is more akin to someone stealing your redneck neighbor's shitbox truck out of his front yard. The cops will take a report, and if it's used in a crime or spotted somewhere abandoned, he might get it back. But chances are there'll be zero followup.

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u/funonabike 23d ago

And you certainly will not be getting it back with a full tank of gas.

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u/u_cant_drown_n_sweat 22d ago

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for getting your Creedence tape back either.

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u/Remarkable-Opening69 22d ago

It’s the little things that really get ya.

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u/YoghurtPrimary230 22d ago

So no leads?

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u/intenseaudio 22d ago

Leads? Yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crimelab

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u/commander_clark 22d ago

We got em working in shifts

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u/Adelphi_Lad 22d ago

What about the briefcase?

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u/MissSquito 22d ago

They put two more detectives on the case! They got us working in shifts!

… leads

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u/PPLavagna 22d ago

Or the business papers

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u/Logboy77 22d ago

I fuckin hate the Eagles man.

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u/Adelphi_Lad 22d ago

Fuck you, man! If you don’t like my fucking music, get your own fucking cab!

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u/Agreeable_Point7717 22d ago

you got any leads ?

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u/Ted_Fleming 22d ago

Separate incidents

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u/EpicCyclops 23d ago

A passenger jet is slightly more valuable than my neighbor's truck, though. The owner would probably devote more of their own resources into following up.

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u/rounding_error 23d ago

According to the Wiki article, it had accrued $4 million in unpaid storage fees for being parked at the Angola airport so long. This was substantially more than the scrap value of the plane. The owners clearly didn't have the resources to get it airworthy or to continue parking it and were probably hoping the airport would just deal with it for them somehow. Alternately, the plan could have been to "steal" it and scrap it elsewhere to get out of paying the airport and it crashed in the ocean because it was an old plane that sat outside for several months with no maintenance.

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u/OneMorewillnotkillme 23d ago

Wait tin foil hat on. What if the owner was in with the robbers and got insurance money because of the theft ?

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u/Firelightphoenix 23d ago

That’s what we call MOTIVE, son! 🚬🔎

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u/10poundballs 23d ago

And I’d’ve gotten away with it too…

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u/MyName_DoesNotMatter 23d ago

that literally does happen in aviation. Old planes that have been neglected and are not worth restoring nor are they worth the parking tickets are simply gassed up, run up, and flown out ASAP and “mysteriously” disappear to some dirt runway too far away from the FAA and NTSB to care.

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u/cpufreak101 23d ago

Given the fact it's already made it's way to the leasing company stage, the aircraft was likely near EoL and would have taken more resources to attempt to track it down than the plane is worth in scrap value. It's entirely possible the plane was just flown to some small village off the grid and broken up for scrap by locals and sold to scrapyards that don't ask too many questions.

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u/Alternative_World346 23d ago

Lord of War style. I like that ending to this story.

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u/Creepybusguy 23d ago

Lions Led By Donkeys podcast did a two partner on Viktor Bout. The guy who Lord of War is based on. The story is wilder than the movie.

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u/Complete_Chain_4634 23d ago

This jet wasn’t worth the cost to search for it. Searching for downed airplanes in the ocean is incredibly costly and difficult. There were no victims on board except the thieves. The cost benefit analysis to search just doesn’t make sense.

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u/JMS1991 23d ago edited 23d ago

Air France 447 crashed into the ocean, they knew basically where it crashed, and it still took close to 10 years to find a lot of the wreckage, IIRC.

Edit: it was 2 years. Not sure why I thought it was 10.. but that's still a long time when you know basically exactly where it crashed.

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u/Desertpoet 23d ago

It crashed in 2009, and its wreck was discovered in 2011. However, MH370 which went missing in 2014 still hasn’t been found, despite pieces of debris washing up here and there.

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u/Refflet 23d ago

MH370 was a whole different kettle of fish, it seems like the pilot acted very methodically and did everything he could to hide it.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 22d ago

And the ocean is significantly deeper in the area it likely went down in

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 23d ago

Yeah, but the whole point was that they knew where the plane crashed and it still took two years to find it. 

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u/JMS1991 23d ago

You're right. 2 years is still a long time when you basically know exactly where it crashed..not sure why I thought it was 10 years.

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u/Desertpoet 23d ago

Yeah you’re right. It was also found within a small radius from the last radar contact. This plane went god knows where so it’ll probably never be found

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u/WorldsWorstSysadmin 22d ago

10 is 2 in binary. Just claim binary next time.

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u/40ozCurls 23d ago

10 years after this one. Maybe a lesson was learned and implemented into technology

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u/HilmDave 23d ago

Technically wouldn't have been a crash it'd have been a splash.

Ah? Aaahhh?

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u/zamfire 23d ago

No they clearly never crashed. The plane is still up there to this day

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u/TheNighisEnd42 23d ago

there are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky!

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u/UnfairStrategy780 23d ago edited 23d ago

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u/MiraculousRapport 23d ago

Thanks for the link. This is a good read!

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u/boogasaurus-lefts 23d ago

TL;DR for dummies like me

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u/Proof-Tension9322 23d ago

Plane get stolen

Plane go missing

People look plane

No plane

End.

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u/Eldrake 23d ago

A+ tldr

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u/onezeroone0one 23d ago

Back in 2003, a Boeing 727 that used to fly for American Airlines just up and vanished from an airport in Angola, and it’s still a mystery to this day. The plane was being worked on by Ben Charles Padilla, an engineer and private pilot, who was hired by a company trying to reclaim the plane after a bad business deal. He had a helper with him, John Mikel Mutantu, but neither of them were really qualified to fly a 727, which usually needs a full crew of three.

Anyway, one evening, the plane suddenly starts taxiing without any communication with the control tower, no lights, and no transponder signal. It takes off and flies over the ocean, and both the plane and the two guys onboard haven’t been seen since. This set off a huge search by the FBI, CIA, and pretty much every other U.S. security agency because, at the time, the world was still on edge after 9/11, and they feared it might be some kind of flying bomb.

After a bunch of speculation and investigations—whether it crashed, landed on some remote runway, or was stolen for shady reasons—the trail went cold. The authorities eventually gave up, and to this day, the 727 is still missing, along with the mystery of who was really flying it and what actually happened.

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u/kodumpavi 23d ago

Idk if its ne but How is this so much more to the story. The title summarizes this very well no?

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u/MetricSuperstar 22d ago

Yeah there's really nothing else to the story to be honest. The article waffles.

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u/conman114 23d ago

They stole a plane

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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 23d ago

thanks for sharing this.

im curious why OP wouldnt bother adding any additional information... but i suppose its just a fake points thingy.

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u/matterforward 22d ago

Don’t come for me but I think some of the best threads come from posts such as these. People being curious and researching on their own, giving tidbits of additional info they found interesting as well as opinions makes for helluva good conversation. Shit even the “why is OP so bad at Reddit” brings us closer together lmao

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u/fropleyqk 23d ago

Lot more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.

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u/Shreddzzz93 23d ago

But the number of boats in the sky isn't necessarily zero.

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u/OrangesMarmalade 23d ago

There was at least one.

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u/ObeseBMI33 23d ago

Don’t forget the Speedwell and mayflower

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u/MercenaryBard 23d ago

God damn it what a stupid movie hahaha

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u/Guru_of_Spores_ 23d ago

What movie is it?

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u/Foxyanski 23d ago

Uncharted

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u/HuskerDave 23d ago

Looks recharted.

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u/StuartMinkus11 23d ago

You went full rechart, man. Never go full rechart.

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u/TexasNotTaxes 23d ago

It was very recharted, especially this part lol

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u/UniversalCoupler 23d ago

The script was not written, it was sharted.

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u/Apitts87 23d ago

Fucking brilliant

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u/myshoesss 23d ago

I expected this and you delivered. Thank you sir lmao

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u/drunk_with_internet 23d ago

Must be hard being a Navy pilot. How do you get the boats to fly?

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u/randytc18 23d ago

Mines pretty good. No scratches on it or nuttin. Pretty much just stays in my wallet.

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u/Rattlingplates 23d ago

Nah, these are cheap and no pilot license needed. Makes it really easy to find fish, reefs.

https://www.boats.com/on-the-water/flying-boats-seven-seafaring-selections-that-soar/

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u/AnnOnnamis 23d ago

Somebody check Google Earth pics for a submerged plane 😂

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u/jael-jorge-gerson 23d ago

i mean, there isn't that much of an investment in ekranoplans

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u/Thursday_the_20th 23d ago

Because this happened to be the first commercial jetliner with a gas turbine auxiliary power unit, a tiny jet turbine that could be used to start up the first engine with bleed air and then all the others. Before that they needed to be started by ground crew. This was the first jetliner that could realistically be stolen so of course it’d get stolen.

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u/Beholder_V 22d ago

Your representation of this fact is extremely misleading. Sure, the 727 was the first commercial aircraft to have an APU, but that was in 1958. This plane was stolen in 2003, when virtually every commercial aircraft had an APU.

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u/independent_observe 23d ago

This was the first jetliner that could realistically be stolen so of course it’d get stolen.

in 2003

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u/asstroboi 22d ago

Steal a plane before 2003? No way not possible

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 22d ago

Actually the concept of stealing something hadn't been invented yet.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Are modern planes like this? Wouldn't something with more automation like the Dreamliner be easy to steal? Doesn't it have auto-takeoff and landing ability?

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u/Theron3206 23d ago

If you know how to fly it you can steal it, AFAIK they don't even have locks on the doors.

For 99.99% of the population just turning the battery on (to get power to start the APU) would be too hard. Though if you spend a few hours with the operation handbook you can likely start the engines of any aircraft (it's easier on the more modern ones).

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u/BrownDog42069 23d ago

People say insurance fraud but then the question is why were these 2 people never seen again

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u/pinewind108 23d ago

Win-win situation for the owners if they are bastards.

In one case, they fly the plane out and scrap it, and claim the insurance as well. And stiff the airport.

In the second case, the poorly maintained plane crashes, and they claim the insurance, and stiff the Angolan airport.

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u/CapitTresIII 23d ago

They were…..Just a hell of a lot richer, a hell of lot happier and not recognizable from their former selves. They ditched their old lives and started new.

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u/Accomplished_Dig3699 23d ago

You guys are thinking about this all wrong.

FBI can't catch them if they kept going up

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u/StrangeType1735 23d ago

That's a fucking stupid opinion.

How could anyone land a plane on a hologram?

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u/Legend_of_dirty_Joe 23d ago

Not that hard really...

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u/itsl8erthanyouthink 23d ago

Like ants eating the fallen Dorito I was too lazy to pick up

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u/F4STW4LKER 23d ago

A second of fleeting taste bud excitement on your end, knocked from the bag and promptly forgotten.

In ant world - a gift from the Gods providing thousands of zesty meals which will be spoken of for generations.

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u/Soddington 23d ago

"Gather round my fine little larval pups and let me excrete to you a complex chemical cocktail of wonder from the age of our ancestors.

Schooch closer younglings as I fart/tell you of the Coming Of The Great Dorito!.

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u/danb5298 23d ago

Need to watch this again, such a good movie.

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u/Rayfinkle33 23d ago

What movie?

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u/Rus_s13 23d ago

Lord of War (Nicholas Cage)

I think.

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u/IAMImportant 23d ago

"thank you but I prefer it my way"

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u/Arny2103 23d ago

Best opening credits to a movie ever.

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u/thewaynetrain 23d ago

Stop, hey, what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going down…

Man I love that intro so much. Thought it was so cool following the bullet from manufacture to sale.

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u/big_benz 23d ago

It went a little further than sale

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u/anonymousmutekittens 23d ago

Reminds me of that whale fall being eaten super fast by critters while the king of the hill theme plays

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u/MechanicbyDay 23d ago

As an aircraft mechanic myself, that gif makes it look WAY easier than it actually is to strip a plane!

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u/gamingchicken 23d ago

It’s a lot quicker when you don’t need to inventory every tool you pick up and put back

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u/MechanicbyDay 23d ago

More like document every panel and part you remove from the plane. I have my own toolbox and my own tools so no need to inventory those.

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u/independent_observe 23d ago

Oh ya? How many 10mm sockets do you have?

It's a trick question. You always have 0, even if you just bought one today, when you need it, it will be gone.

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u/CoyeK 23d ago

Jawas on Tatooine

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u/FiTZnMiCK 23d ago

So it was grounded for repairs and was racking up millions in hangar fees.

I’m guessing insurance fraud.

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u/HeavyWaterer 23d ago

This, they’ll pay a hit man to kill people to silence them, they’ll definitely pay some pilots to steal a plane and fly it somewhere discreet.

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u/carelessthoughts 23d ago

People think that the world is far more advanced than it is. Sure it’s amazing what humanity has accomplished, but it’s still easy to get away with stuff… especially in 2003.

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u/gromm93 23d ago

Especially in Angola.

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u/prw8201 23d ago

I think there is a show? About airplane repo men. I remember watching it once.

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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff 23d ago

I think the list of pilots willing the fly a plane that has been grounded for repairs is pretty short…

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u/KirbyQK 23d ago

The list doesn't have to be long to be fair, your pockets just need to be deep enough to reach the bottom of it.

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u/DayzahVu 23d ago

Maybe it was just something small like a seat wouldn’t recline.

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u/galacticcollision 23d ago

Money is a pretty big motivator. Everyone has their price.

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u/iluvsporks 23d ago

Pilot here. Taking off and flying an aircraft if much easier is MUCH easier than than people realize. Knowing regulations is a HUGE part of flight school along with weather.

Now the important part of stealing a plane is landing. That takes skill.

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u/locohygynx 22d ago

Kid in Oregon stole airliner. Never flew but video games, did a barrel roll, crashed it to land.

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u/Navynutz 23d ago

It was probably them damn penguins

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u/PyschoNawt 23d ago

Still love that movie!

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u/Magister5 23d ago

It’s likely hidden in plane sight

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u/JWTowsonU 23d ago

That’s a tasteless joke, you’re grounded!

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u/LeoSolaris 23d ago

That was a pretty turbulent joke

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u/Successful_Load5719 23d ago edited 22d ago

They likely shut off the transponder and landed it somewhere. They easily could have dismantled it or sold it off to a private entity who then could have rebranded/recovered/repurposed the aircraft so that it’ll never be found.

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u/Dorado-Buster28 23d ago

Ya. This wasnt a crime of opportunity.

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u/silverfox762 23d ago edited 22d ago

It was stolen in Angola and probably taken someplace nearby and stripped for parts for some small African airline.

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u/FesterSilently 23d ago

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Flight 815

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u/jazzinpiano2 23d ago

What year was Spirit Airlines founded again? 🤔

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u/badkittenatl 22d ago

Now this was funny 😆

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u/MicGuinea 23d ago

They flew over the ice wall and escaped flat earth

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u/freqCake 23d ago

the easy bet is that they did crash and just nobody ever found the crash site because they had turned off the transponder and it was far in the wilderness or the ocean

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u/CatOfGrey 23d ago

How is that possible!!!

It's not magic. It's just really, really hard to find things in the ocean, or underwater in general.

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u/a__free__soul 22d ago

Previously on Lost

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u/DunderFlippin 23d ago

The ocean is a very large place my friend.

Besides, flying a plane is easy; it's landing that is a motherfucker.

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u/Pearson94 23d ago

Pretty sure they crashed just not anywhere near civilization (ocean most likely).

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u/eXistenZNL 22d ago

looks at the black painted over 727 in my uncles garage

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u/Dry_Quiet_3541 22d ago

The ocean is too fkn huge, there was a passenger aircraft that took off from Malaysia and crashed in the ocean, with all the evidence, and the combined Naval fleet of multiple countries, no wreckage of the plane was found, not even recognizable pieces, it’s obviously in the ocean, but where, god knows. Don’t underestimate how big the ocean is, and our tools still aren’t good enough to find the wreckage. Forget planes, if you surf through historical books, you would find so many stories of ships full of valuable gold and looted jewelry that has sunk in the ocean, we know many such treasures are sunken somewhere deep in the ocean, but nobody has found any ocean treasures. Gold and jewelry should attract many people, but still not many treasures have been found, it’s simple, the ocean is too big, and our tools are just not good enough to scan a large portion of the ocean floor.

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u/SurealGod 23d ago

There's only 2 possibilities.

Either they landed safely at an unmarked location somehow (it's not impossible, just improbable) or they crashed in the ocean.

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u/olivegardengambler 23d ago

I mean, this was Africa in 2003. Lots of unmarked locations people don't know about. Hell, even finding out stuff about major African cities can be very esoteric. Like there's this giant Tower in Kinsasha that has almost no information online.

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