Cover image via Yus Rin/EPA'Missing' owners of 3 Boeings at KLIA says MAHB refuses to acknowledge them as the owners
On Monday, 7 December, MAHB published a newspaper advertisements to serve as notice to the owners of three Boeings 747, saying that the planes will be sold or disposed of if not collected within 14 days.
Now according to a report in The Star Online, **Swift Air Cargo**, which is currently called Splunk n' Dash Sdn Bhd, has come forward as the "missing" owner of the three Boeings parked at KLIA, claiming that the company has been in contact with Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) on a "consistent basis".
Don't you hate it when you can't remember where you left your car keys? Well, how about Boeing 747-200F Jumbo Jet? Wait, what?
Yep. Someone apparently "forgot" not one, not two, but three of the massive Jumbo Jets at the KLIA at Sepang. And now Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB), the country's main airport operator, is seeking the owner.
After failing to trace the owner of the three commercial planes despite having their registration numbers, they put out this bizarre notice in the classifieds section The Star newspaper on Monday:
Snapshot of the notice as it appeared in The Star's classifieds section on Monday.
Image via The Star
Malaysia Airports has given the unknown owner 14 days to collect:
Zainol Mohd. Isa, the contact person listed in the advertisement, while speaking to Bloomberg news agency, told that the planes had been sitting on the tarmac for more than a year
According to CNN, several aviation databases list the Boeings as belonging to leasing firm Air Atlanta Icelandic, but that company says it sold them in 2008.
Since then, the Boeings have changed hands several times.
Malaysia Airports says it's entitled to sell the Boeings under the country's civil aviation regulations if no owner comes forward
"The giving of such notice by way of advertisement is a common and reasonable step in the process of debt recovery especially in cases where the company concerned has ceased operations and is a foreign entity whereby exhaustive steps undertaken to find a contact person have not been successful," Malaysia Airports said in a [statement](http://www.malaysiaairports.com.my/?m=media_centre&c=news&id=522).
"This step is also a common process undertaken by airport operators all over the world when faced with such a situation."
The advertisements dated 7 December 2015 in The Star and Sin Chew Daily.
Image via Malaysia Airports
