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Antonov An-225: €500M to Rebuild the World’s Largest Airplane (simpleflying.com)
16 points by Kaibeezy on Nov 16, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


€500M because of incompetence

https://simpleflying.com/an-225-destruction-blame/

>"There was no decision to transfer the plane anywhere. You could do Rzeszów, you could do Leipzig. Why Leipzig? Because on January 26th, there was an appeal to management from the [NATO Support and Procurement Agency] via [Antonov Logistics (Germany)] for the relocation of all our aircraft. Flight personnel, personnel, spare parts, etc [could be transported] to Leipzig in light of a possible war. There was no answer to this inquiry...And as I said, there was no strong-willed decision to transfer [the aircraft] between February 15th and 23rd.


I still get rather angry when I read about what happened to that aeroplane. Putin will pay one way or the other, that's for sure.


Just bill this to Putin's account.




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