Twitter Thread: Dude Tells The Tale of The Abandoned Plane At An Indian Airport

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Eric Lund
Oct 16, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

Ever see something abandoned or out of place and wondered how that thing got there? It just so happens that there's a story behind an abandoned plane at an airport in Nagpur, India. It sounds like every mechanically inclined dad's dream to fix up a Boeing 720 and take it on adventures, and that's just what Chris Croy's dad did. Or tried to. And what a wild Kenneth Copeland tie-in.

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    Aircraft - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy I just found out that 1. For 24 years every pilot who landed at the airport in Nagpur, India had to be warned about the Boeing 720 sitting next to the runway. 2. That it was my dad's fault. This is the story of my dad's junkyard jet.
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    Product - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 20h Replying to @ChrisCroy Some time in 1990 my dad, an airplane mechanic at Brown Field Municipal airport, saw a guy circling the abandoned Boeing 720. It had been resting in the dry desert air ever since the previous owner, Kenneth Copeland, had ditched it a couple years back for reasons unknown. 27 50 987 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 20h The guy, an Indian tire magnate named Sam Veder, asked my dad if it could fly again. My dad said yes, he could get it flying. The 29
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    Font - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 19h A normal dad might have an old muscle car he tinkers with on the weekend, but -my- dad had a Being 720. For the next year, when he wasn't working on the plane he was pestering Boeing engineers for advice and picking through aircraft boneyards for parts. L7 39 1,033 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 19h From the beginning the other mechanics in the hangar said he was wasting his time. Even if my dad could get it to fly (which he wouldn't) it could never legally fly again due
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    World - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 19h While my dad was fixing up the plane my mom was filing paperwork with the FAA. They just needed to fly across the border to Tijuana to complete the test flights. The FAA agreed - on the condition that the plane climb north to 14,000 feet before turning south to Tijuana. ...yeah. Bon Held Apert e OTAY MESA (S5 min Pek it Smpre Buse u pr aTA DE O Tuana Pintemational Airport Estido RemmsManm IBERTAD CAMPOS CENTRO 3 27 29 848 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 18h After they com
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    Ecoregion - (125 Brown Field Municipal Airport Otay Mesa Rd chool 905 Otay Mesa Rd Otay Mesa Rd Otay Mesa R (905 905 905 (905) 125 Airway Rd Airway Rd OTAY MESA * 55 min 42 km Pacific Sateway Park Siempre Viva Business Park Siempre Viva Rd Cross Border XpressCBX Ready Lane LUnited States México Aeropuerto United States México GARITA DE OTA Tijuana OInternational Airport AEROPUERTO Estadio Romero Manzo a LIBERTAD CAMPOS DEPORTIVOS CENTRO La Media Rd Cactus Rd iley Rd
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    Font - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 18h He was right to worry: Granted, the plane DID make it to India, but they encountered engine problems on the maiden flight from Delhi and had to do an emergency landing at Nagpur airport, where it would live for the following 24 years. O 2 27 39 982 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 18h They initially left it on the runway itself, but it was quickly towed 300 feet away, but still that's way too close for regulations or comfort and it should have been moved much farther immedi
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    Vertebrate - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy According to the airport Sam Veder was a broke bitch, owed them rent, and needed to move the plane. Sam said he had a plan to at least move the plane immediately, but the airport wouldn't give him access to the plane, so they're like a landlord that locked a tenant inside. FALLONTONIGH GIF 3:25 p.m. · 12 Oct. 21 · Twitter Web App
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    Aircraft - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 18h Replying to @ChrisCroy Regardless of why, it was. Time passed. Sam retired, built Balaji Puram temple to honor Lord Balaji, and the plane remained. In 2011 the government told the airport to move the damn plane or they would strip the airport's license, so they dragged it a little farther away. 包 53 1,111 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 18h In the most incredible "the problem I was avoiding for [eternity] only took [moment]" ever, in 2015 the new airport director decid
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    World - Chris Croy @ChrisCroy · 18h there's no moral here. hail lord balaji. 6 27 52 1,506 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy 14h also, my dad lied and told my mom that the plane was still flying around India carrying "people and chickens". He did not enjoy his trip to India because the food was too spicy, complaining that those lunatics in India will eat onions with hot peppers for breakfast. 58 27 115 2,004 Chris Croy @ChrisCroy · 8h there's a lot of confusion here, so to clarify, the only person who think
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