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    Me peeking out of the escape hatch on the B747.
    The B747 and MD80.Approaching the B747.When I was in Myanmar, my friend Alex identified the graffiti artist responsible for this mural.To enter the B747, one has to first step into the front cargo door...The cargo door leads into the cargo bay which is strewn with overhead bins.To get to the main deck, one has to climb a ladder. The floor gave way underneath me here.The main deck, where first class is usually situated.Main deck.Me on the main deck.The first class galley.The stairs leading to the upper deck.Main deck emergency exit.Upper deck looking down on one of the MD80s.Upper deck looking towards the cockpit.The B747 cockpit.Upper deck.Upper deck.Upper deck emergency exit.Me peeking out of the escape hatch on the B747.

    Ex Machina - The B747

    August 21, 2017 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    I split the Aircraft Graveyard into two footprints to bypass the 20 photo limit. This entry focuses on the B747.

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    The Aircraft Graveyard is visible from Ramkamhaeng Road. I arrived on time at 11.00am, waited until 11.15am, and proceeded without Clay when he didn't show up by then. The aircraft are fenced in, and there are several families living in some of the abandoned hulls. At the gate, I caught the attention of a young boy, who collected 200 baht from me before unlocking the gate and letting me in. Wow, what a sight. There is one Boeing 747-400 and two McDonnell Douglas MD-82s in the field. One of the MD-82s had been written off after a crash in Phuket with fatalities.

    According to other websites I read, the last operator of all three aircraft was Orient Thai. They were purchased by a businessman and brought to this field to be dismantled and sold for scrap. Everything that was salvageable had been stripped out. I'm not sure what the story is about the families living in the Aircraft Graveyard and whether they have permission to live there.

    Anyway, I was like a kid in a candy shop. The nose section of the B747 was relatively intact. I climbed into the B747 via a cargo door, and accessed the main deck by climbing up a ladder. The main deck was where first class would have been. The stairs to the upper deck were still intact and so I went up to where the business class cabin would have been, and peeked into the cockpit. One of the two MD-82s was also relatively intact. I climbed into it and went to the cockpit and sat in the captain's chair!

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