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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3965565" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Could be a case of cost cutting at work. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591" target="_blank">Atlas Air Flight 3591 - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p>“The Boeing 767-375(ER) (msn 25865/430) was originally ordered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Airlines" target="_blank">Canadian Airlines International</a> in 1992, but not taken up by Canadian and instead delivered to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Peat_Aviation" target="_blank">Guinness Peat Aviation</a> as a white-tail aircraft in July 1992, who then leased the aircraft to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Southern_Airlines" target="_blank">China Southern Airlines</a>. After being sold to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Capital_Aviation_Services" target="_blank">GE Capital Aviation Services</a>, the aircraft was then leased to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_Airlines" target="_blank">LAN Airlines</a>, which operated the aircraft for 17 years within various divisions of LAN, before being returned to the lessor, by this time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIT_Aerospace" target="_blank">CIT Aerospace</a>. CIT then leased the aircraft to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air" target="_blank">Atlas Air</a>, who then had the airframe converted to a freighter for use with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Air" target="_blank">Amazon Air</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paya_Lebar_Air_Base" target="_blank">Paya Lebar Air Base</a>, subsequently taking full ownership of the aircraft from the lessor upon completion of the conversion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" target="_blank">FAA</a> records, the airframe had accumulated more than 90,000 hours over 23,000 flights prior to its hull loss.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591#cite_note-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> The Boeing 767 aircraft was nearly 27 years old at the time of the accident.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[8]</a>”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 3965565, member: 48469"] Could be a case of cost cutting at work. [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591"]Atlas Air Flight 3591 - Wikipedia[/URL] “The Boeing 767-375(ER) (msn 25865/430) was originally ordered by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Airlines']Canadian Airlines International[/URL] in 1992, but not taken up by Canadian and instead delivered to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Peat_Aviation']Guinness Peat Aviation[/URL] as a white-tail aircraft in July 1992, who then leased the aircraft to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Southern_Airlines']China Southern Airlines[/URL]. After being sold to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Capital_Aviation_Services']GE Capital Aviation Services[/URL], the aircraft was then leased to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_Airlines']LAN Airlines[/URL], which operated the aircraft for 17 years within various divisions of LAN, before being returned to the lessor, by this time [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIT_Aerospace']CIT Aerospace[/URL]. CIT then leased the aircraft to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air']Atlas Air[/URL], who then had the airframe converted to a freighter for use with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Air']Amazon Air[/URL] at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paya_Lebar_Air_Base']Paya Lebar Air Base[/URL], subsequently taking full ownership of the aircraft from the lessor upon completion of the conversion.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591#cite_note-6'][6][/URL] According to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration']FAA[/URL] records, the airframe had accumulated more than 90,000 hours over 23,000 flights prior to its hull loss.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591#cite_note-7'][7][/URL] The Boeing 767 aircraft was nearly 27 years old at the time of the accident.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591#cite_note-8'][8][/URL]” [/QUOTE]
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