Muammar al-Gaddafi's personal means of transport

The lavishly equipped aircraft with the identification 5A-ONE of the Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi (killed in 2011) is to seen at Perpignan Llabanere Airport (F). After the nationwide uprisings in Libya, the plane was brought to France in 2012 for repair. Damaged by many small-caliber bullets, it was able to fly, but could fly only up to 3000 m high and the landing gear was no longer retractable.
In June 2015, the Kuwaiti Charafi group confiscated the plane in France. The background to this is the group's demands on Libya after the Gaddafi regime terminated a contract in 2010 for the construction of a Mediterranean resort. An Egyptian arbitration court awarded al-Charafi therefore 935 million euros - and the corporation wants to bring some of the money through the auction of the Airbus. The Libyan Authority for Special Flights considers this to be inadmissible because of the state sovereignty of Libya and demands the return of the aircraft.
Now a complicated litigation is under way in France, as Air France has demanded several million euros for repair and maintenance of the machine, but has not received any money.
The owner is still the Libyan government, but the lawsuit is presumably not settled yet.

Read the whole bizarre story of the jet here.

Attachments:

Muammar Gaddafis personal jet.kmz (934 B)

The IC4 is an intercity train with a top speed of 200 km / h from the Italian train manufacturer AnsaldoBreda for the Trans-Great Belt routes from Danske Statsbaner (DSB), which ordered a total of 83 four-car units in December 2000. The first units were only delivered in 2007. There were already several complications during delivery and operation, the trains were considered to be defective. All orders were never delivered.
Now in 2009 the then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had the clever idea of ​​bribing Libyan Prime Minister Gaddafi so that he would select Italian companies for Libya's railway projects that could bring Italy billions if they were awarded to them.
AnsaldoBreda took (without Danish knowledge) one of the IC4's still on the line and, on Belusconi's instructions, converted it into a luxurious VIP train before giving it to Gaddafi as a gift on the 40th anniversary of his seizure of power. Berlusconi had visited Libya days before the 40th anniversary of the coup - an event that other Western leaders avoided. Berlusconi not only showed Gaddafi his new shiny train, but also promised 3.5 billion euros in investments.
Beaming with joy, Gaddafi accepted the gift, although there were no tracks for a high-speed train in all of Libya. In order to at least be able to move the train, three kilometers of double-track tracks were laid on which the “Gaddafi Express” could travel up and down until a planned railway line between Tripoli and Tunisia was completed. The train was never in proper operation. And now it still stands there and dusty.

Denmark is said to have found out only in 2013 that one of their poor quality trains was stranded in Libya. Copenhagen was probably not too sad. (Source)

 

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Gaddafi-Express.kmz (692 B)

Fascinating!