It's official: European B742 G-BDXO being scrapped.

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After being parked at AMS for the ebst part of 2 years it is finally decided to let the scrappers loose on the old lady.

The plane was originally a British Airways bird, but they sold it to European. European placed it with KLM Engineering for heavy maintenance, but European went bankrupt before the maintenance was completed. Maintenance was stopped and the plane was parked ever since.

Air Salvage International expects the scrapping to take some 8 weeks.

The faith of the tristar that is also parked at AMS remains uncertain. It too may face the axe. The Luzair plane stranded here about a year ago after an aborted take-off destroyed the wheels and brakes.

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Believe this had no tail on today but maybe just not seen

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Correct, the tail and APU were removed yesterday. The plane will be towed into hangar 9 where she will be scrapped.

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G-BDXO in a previous guise, in 1:400 scale model representation from my collection... ;)

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It's sad to see these once Queen of the skies turn into nothing more than scrap metal

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Sad that it will be scrapped... but aircraft weren't built to last forever.

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Sad that it will be scrapped... but aircraft weren't built to last forever.

Doesn't make it any easier to see a queen of the sky be dismantled :(