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MORE pics: wing of BA 747 tore through brick building @JNB..

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Date: 22-DEC-2013
Time: -22:20
Type: Boeing 747-400
Owner/operator: British Airways

Registration: G-BNLL
C/n / msn: 24054/794
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Re: Picture: wing of BA 747 tore through building, lotsa dam

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Locally rumored to be a likely write off (damaged beyond economical repair) due to extensive wing damage, but lets see.
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canberra wrote:Locally rumored to be a likely write off (damaged beyond economical repair) due to extensive wing damage, but lets see.
Yep, quite extensive damage indeed, see for daylight pictures
http://www.flightlevel.be/39240/b747-br ... hannesburg
now... :(
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Re: Picture: wing of BA 747 tore through building, lotsa dam

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canberra wrote:Locally rumored to be a likely write off (damaged beyond economical repair) due to extensive wing damage, but lets see.
You mean the building or the 747 :wink:
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According to a message, this frame just had a D-check, so lets wait and see if this will be a w/o.
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G-BNLL is apparently a jinxed airplane. It is nicknamed Never Leaves London-after the last 3 letters of it's registration and a poor serviceability record.

It may well never be going back there.
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Le Addeur noir wrote:G-BNLL is apparently a jinxed airplane. It is nicknamed Never Leaves London-after the last 3 letters of it's registration and a poor serviceability record.

It may well never be going back there.
And indeed, eventually it never left Johannesburg again. It got scrapped this April 2015:

https://www.facebook.com/RadarBox24/pos ... 8716622267

http://traveller24.news24.com/News/Flig ... w-20150420

http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 1&t=151676
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