DUMFOUNDED AND PERPLEXED Those are our planes

Posted on 12/14/2015

Remember those jumbo jets sitting at Kuala Lumpur airport – well the owners have claimed them. A new Malaysian air cargo company says it is the owner of three the three planes parked for more than a year at the country's main airport.

Malaysia's airport operator this week took the unusual step of posting photos in two newspapers of the three Boeing 747-200s, warning owners that the airport has the right to sell or dispose of the planes unless they are collected within 14 days. Swift Air Cargo says it legally bought the planes in June and that the airport operator had demanded more documentation on the purchase. Swift's lawyer Syed Amir Syakib Arslan said Friday the company is “dumbfounded and perplexed” by the airport's action.

The operator says the claim of ownership could not be satisfactorily verified.