The MH370 Search Will Come To The End

9M-MRO, the missing plane at Paine Field on June 5, 2002, one month after its first flight

The search for 9M-MRO, a Boeing 777-200ER that missing on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing as Malaysia Airlines flight 370 will be suspended as 110,000 kilometers squares of 120,000 kilometers squares had been covered. The search will be suspended, but will not be ended. The investigators still have yet to find the missing aircraft after two years of the MH370's disappearance. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished from radar screen on March 8, 2014. The satellite data shows if the plane was still flying heading to the south towards the Southern Indian Ocean and believed to run out of fuel and crashed.

The Turkish Airlines Airbus A340-300 Is Flying Into Retirement

TC-JII, Turkish Airlines’ youngest Airbus A340-300

Turkish Airlines is the national airline of Turkey. Turkish Airlines received the first Airbus A340-300 in its fleet, TC-JDJ (nose name: Istanbul) on July 22, 1993. The airline had nine orders of the aircraft type at the time, the ninth and also the last Airbus A340-300 to be delivered to Turkish Airlines is TC-JII, it was delivered to Turkish Airlines on April 21, 2000. The Airbus A340-300s are operating Turkish Airlines' flights between Asia and Europe. Now, the airline has four Airbus A340-300 remain in service. The another five aircraft had been stored, sold to the other operators, or being scrapped. The Turkish Airlines' Airbus A340-300 average age is 18,2 years old. Turkish Airlines also announced the last passenger flight of its Airbus A340-300 that would be held on tomorrow, June 17, 2016, and the flight would be commenced between Istanbul and Medina. Goodbye Turkish Airlines Airbus A340-300!

Did Iran Air Extended Its Boeing 747SP-86 Life?

EP-IAC, the last Boeing 747SP remaining in passenger service in the world

 

Iran Air, the flag carrier airline of Iran has retired its last and also the last passenger version of the Boeing 747SP, with the last flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tehran on the last Saturday. The last Boeing 747SP flight was flown by EP-IAC (nose name: Persian Gulf), the last Boeing 747SP in service as passenger aircraft in the world. But, the aircraft is still listed as active according to https://www.planespotters.net/, even though the last flight operated by EP-IAC is listed on June 11, 2016, the scheduled Boeing 747SP-86 retirement date, from Kuala Lumpur to Tehran. Sam Chui, an aviation enthusiast based in Hong Kong also announced the another Iran Aviation Tour that will be held in this November, the tour is including a flight with Iran Air's Boeing 747SP-86. Did Iran Air delay the retirement of its Boeing 747SP-86 so the Boeing 747SP-86 again? Until now, the airline has yet to confirm its Boeing 747SP-86 retirement. Iran Air initially would retire its last Boeing 747SP-86 in November 2014, but it was canceled and the life of the Boeing 747SP-86 being extended after EP-IAC completed its C-Check few weeks before it scheduled farewell sightseeing flight on November 23, 2014, according to samchui.com. Will the last Boeing 747SP-86 go from passenger service forever? Or its life would be extended?