Two Airbus A340 aircraft of Gambian leasing company Macka Invest were scheduled to fly from Lithuania to Sri Lanka and the Philippines at the end of February, but ended up in Iran, Lithuanian media vz.lt business news websites reported on Thursday.
It seems that Iran's "007" is much more powerful than Britain's 007, and the reason why Iran is doing this is really forced to helpless
The first is economic sanctions, Iran has been sanctioned by the West, resulting in the grounding of more than 500 Iranian aircraft, and the grounding is due to a lack of replacement parts. Aircraft in normal business are also at risk of aging aircraft parts, and every flight can be said to be a big gamble, since the beginning of economic sanctions, air crashes have killed 1,755 people
Now what Iran has to do is to find a way to solve the problem of parts, steal a few planes back and copy and paste, and if it has the ability, it can also find a way to make it, and every plane stolen back is more advanced than its own aircraft, in other words, this can also be seen as a technological breakthrough for Iranian aviation, no matter how it is sudden
The second is that the theft of planes is not the first time, four were stolen in 2022, and the transponders of the planes were turned off as soon as they arrived in Iran, and then there was no more. It is worth mentioning that the stolen Airbus A340 aircraft are really embarrassing
A total of 31 aircraft in mainland China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, have all been retired, and the latest is Taiwan, which was retired in 2017. This model was discontinued in 2011
Iran, a poor little one, is still looking for this backward plane all over the world, trying to steal it home and repair the old one
Therefore, Iran's "petty theft" is excusable and unavoidable
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