Officials Seek Owner of Plane Abandoned For Almost a Decade at Busy Airport

An Iberia MD-87 is flying on June 20, 2001. (Aero Icarus/Flickr[CC BY-SA-2.0 (ept.ms/2utDIe9)])

While many would imagine that a conspicuous object like a plane would get plenty of notice if left abandoned, at Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez Barajas airport, this was not the case.

At Europe’s sixth busiest airport, a McDonnel Douglas MD-87 has been left untouched for nine years, reported The Telegraph. Officials of the airport are now looking for the owner of the mid-range, commercial aircraft.