An airport has given an airline a huge fine for losing one of its planes there for over a decade, the Daily Mail reports. Air India has been slapped with an $85,000 fee for a parked 737-200 left at Kolkata Airport in 2012. The plane had belonged to the carrier Indian Airlines, which in 2007 merged with Air India, and was later rented to the Indian postal service, India Post. The 43-year-old plane was omitted from records, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson said, meaning the airline may have never known it owned it. According to the Times of India, he said, “Though disposal of an old aircraft is not unusual, this one is—for it’s an aircraft that we didn’t even know we owned it until recently." The Daily Mail reports, “One X user, Trinidade Gois, posted a photo of the jet, saying: ‘Last week Air India completed the sale and transfer of this B737-200 (VT-EHH) that had been grounded at CCU since 2012. Delivered to Indian Airlines in 1982, then on to Alliance Air, until it was converted into a freighter and flew with India Post titles. Apparently, the aircraft’s ownership lay forgotten for years.’” The plane is intended for training engineers, the Times reports.
