How a Boeing 727 Was Stolen (And Never Found)
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Meow?
Something to do with currency
The thumbnail looks like it has a 727....
You said 727 in the intro
How chocolate milk comes from brown cows
The penguins of madagascar back at it again...
well boys we did it terrorism is no more
Well boys, we did it, finding the airplane is no more
*plane crashes*
Kowalski, analysis.
Lmaoo😂😂
“Well boys, we did it. We’re going back to Madagascar.”
If my neighbour has a Boeing 727 in his backyard then I'll know why now
My neighbor DOES have a 727 in his backyard though...
Once had a neighbor with an F105 thunderchief
727 likes no one like this comment
My neighbour has an Antonov AN 2 plane in his backyard
@@planesguy does it look like its repainted?
Don't you just hate it when someone steals your Boeing 727?
yea keep the cereal up guys!
happens all the time so i got used to it
same
smh
727 is the most stolen airplane in the past 20 years, all it takes a coat hanger.
One thing I've learnt: Planes get parking tickets.
Conway79, I'm just imagining a scenario where a plane lands next to a parking meter and the pilot goes over the tannoy like "has anyone got change for the parking meter? Quickly! the traffic wardens right over there"
Oh yes and large, expensive ones at that.
*How a 737 was stolen*
(video all about 727)
_refreshes page_
*How a 727 was stolen*
"Ah there"
What! Am confused
Samama vi Britannia : the title before was “how a 737 was stolen” and then it was changed to the accurate one of “how a 727 was stolen”
@@undigesteddonut oh makes senae
@@chairmanmeow3884 senae
@Derpalize alright English teacher
That would never happen to Air Koryo’s five Star fleet
Kim Jong-un dont lose a missle, that may end badly
Because you don't have a five star fleet? In that case, this will probably never happen to me either.
Hey Kimmy J
Agreed!
Lol
Looking online it seems the plane was actually found. Whoever took it bribed some 3rd world official to give the plane a new registration but a few letters of the old reg was still visable. The owner most likely hired someone to fly the plane out to avoid paying the storage fees it had racked up while abandoned at the airport. Then did a dodgy deal to re-register it in a different country.
Did they do the re-registration midair?
All I can find is that apparently a burned-out 727 bearing a false registration was found in Mali in 2009. While some reports link it to this incident, there seems to have been no official confirmation that it's the same plane. I kinda suspect that if it were the same plane, it would have been confirmed by now.
Look I don’t wanna be that guy but like:
Source?
Trust me bro
(If you can supply a legitimate source or link to it I will formally take this down)
So nobody gonna talk about how the dude at 2:08 is either blind or doesn’t know how to use a key?
The blockade doesn’t blockade the keyhole my guy
Drunk
Was anybody else frustrated that he kept missing?
@@kv4648 yes
I lost my shit when that happened. Im used to generic stock footage in HAI videos but a guy 'trying' to open a door was unexpected.
But yeah door was blockaded so it makes sense why he couldn't get the key in. Magics and all that.
Oh good, I was starting to miss plane videos
@kingm 2231 mustard?
@kingm 2231 lmao Wendover is the same guy
you could go and watch mustard's videos they do a lot on planes
Or TheFlightChannel
This is the same guy as Wendover? I thought it was the same as RLL. -0-
*How Boeing 727 was Stolen and Never found:*
1. A thief stole it
2. A magician made it disappear
Nah nah a thief magician stole it and made it dissapear
Thanos snapped at an identical 727
And both used Skillshare
3. Ralsei cast pacify on it
*"In latest news, local man dies after a Boeing 727 supposedly 'fell out of his hat,' more on this after sports"*
*_everybody frantically checking if their stolen plane is a Boeing 727_*
I’m from jersey and that shot at Newark was funny as shit LMAO
SuperCortes10 I laughed to lol. It is a war zone
What does jersey and Newark have to do with eachother...
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 Newark is in New Jersey...
@@orlandof6496 so what
@@TommyTom21 Newark and jersey are litteraly an ocean away
When I lived in Chad, I once met a guy who was running his own single-aircraft "airline", doing internal flights in the country with a small airplane (It was long ago, I forgot the model, or the guy's name. Details are real fuzzy).
Financially, it didn't work great, his customer base was too small.
So he struck a deal with some South-African people: they would fly the aircraft from N'Djamena to South Africa, rent it for a few days to operate internal flights in South Africa, and the aircraft would then return to Chad for a few more days, etc...
They agreed on the details of the deal, flew the aircraft to South Africa... and paid local authorities to provide them with documents saying it was theirs. They then kept it as theirs to fly internal flights in South Africa.
So the original owner simply went there, to one of the airfields where they were operating. And once the aircraft in question was there, simply walked into the hangar, got on board, taxied, took off, and landed it back in Chad!
I love Africa lol
Like a boss😂😂😂
If true, that's hilarious.
The pilots was named BA Baracus, and to this day he still hates planes and flying.
Africa Wins Again
My theory: It landed it a small airfield and was scrapped, or crashed into the Namib Desert or maybe the Congo Forest
The reason they pretty much write off landing is that a 737 requires a minimum runway distance that is longer than most airfields. And that's assuming a skilled set of pilots and top-shape plane. The track must be relatively smooth and flat as it doesn't take much to cause the plane to veer off and any smooth long strip of road long and wide enough to accommodate would have had witnesses.
So either this was well planned and a landing facility and crew was secured beforehand, or it crashed.
@@thequantaleaper ahem, and I don't wanna be that guy but.... 727*
@@josephpayne113 oh, my bad. They could've used a smaller airport... but still not sure there would be any still large enough for a landing that wasn't investigated within the search radius.
They would need a large paved runway,with access to heavy machinery that can effectively scrap the plane. I do not think think such a facility even exists in Africa. Let alone within 1500 miles of Angola.
It will not be the first time some moron in Africa hijacked a plane and and asked them to go to a country without any idea about how fuel works.
It doesn't even have to be an airfield. Could also be a long enough street.
Here in germany many interstate highways /Autobahnen have parts exactly designed for starting or landing planes in case of a war (so german airforce can still operate even if all known airports get destroyed) with parking lots in place for refuleing.
My theory is that it never left the mechanics shop. It was scrapped for parts and the "takeoff" was fabricated as a diversion. Just my thoughts
It was documented by several witnesses. ATC, other pilots, a few general public, etc
But where did the two men go though?
@@dramaticvirghoe What two men?
I personally think it crashed and sunk into the ocean (maybe they landed it like sully and it sank?) or they crashed into a forest and since there was no fire nobody noticed.
@@Cal90208 well it did'nt take off on its own, did it?
4:43
*snap*
"Yep, this one's going in my cringe compilation"
What, you haven't seen plane spotters?
I didn't realize how much I found planes and aviation interesting until I discovered Wendover Productions (and later HAI).
2:08 yes that is how you use a key.
The aircraft was registered N844AA, and it was parked at Luanda alongside N843AA, another ex-American Airlines 727. That latter aircraft went on to fly with Nigeria's IRS Airlines (re-registered in Nigeria), carrying diesel, and was later stored along with 5N-RIR, another aircraft that once belonged to the same company.
The nigerian prince is back at it again
Just change the channel name to iluvplanes123 already...
Unfortunately, he can't have the same username and password
@@DryLog420 omg I've never seen such good comment with such a legendary 1st reply
So clever both of you
I feel like making a comment like:
"Planes is love. Planes is life"
@@itssaad8663 thanks boss :-)
I swear the pigeons must've hijacked the airplanes again. Dang feathery creatures
They once hijacked a plane and aloha snackbar ed it to the hudson valley good thing everypne survived. God damn birds
Birds are not even real... you just blindly trust the governments lies. Wake up people!
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Penguins*
summary of the story aireu stole Boeing 727 because when you see it
True..
WHEN YOU DONT SEE IT (the plane)
I can’t fucking take it. I see an image of a random score posted and then I see it, I fucking see it. “Oh that looks kinda like the Blue Zenith 727 score” it started as. That’s funny, that’s a cool reference. But I kept going, I’d see a clock with time that showed 7:27, I’d see that I’m on the 7/27 page on my school homework, my last notice to pay my electricity bill is 727$ , I’d notice that it’s been 727 days since the last time I touched a woman. And every time I’d burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the number 727 ran through my head. I’m scared to look at the time when someone asks me what time is it. It’s torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacally any time I see an 3-digit number which is anywhere close to 727. I can’t fucking live like this… I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t! And don’t get me fucking started on the words! I’ll never hear the phrase “when you see it” again without thinking of 727. Someone does pretty cool and respectable score and I can’t say anything other than “WYSI.” I could watch a man Fc hard underweighted map I love and all I would be able to say is “WYSI” and laugh like a fucking insane person. And the phrase “when you see it” is ruined. I can’t live anymore. 727 has destroyed my fucking life. I want to eject myself from this plane of existence.
Eject 😳
50% = Talk about 727 vs 737 Title
45% = Talking about HAI slip another aircraft video
5% = Actually watch the video
You forgot to squeeze in the .5% of people stating what percentages the comments are
Not very original yourself
@@josephpayne113 yup
0,01% = click on the video because *727*
@@abandonedchannel2162 WHEN YOU FUCKING SEE IT
ah shit yeah, forgot i did that...
do you still want the plane back?
yeah man, I need my flight back to the US man!
F-35: I'm the stealthiest plane ever
Malaysia 370: hold my yoke
recycle joke
Its an f1 joke "yoke"
Am I a yoke to you?
Qing Zhang Nando Alonso
Oh great. Another very original "Hold My Beer" comment. It really is an over-recycled comment
Thank god for curiosity stream for saving 95,7% of lives during crashes
Omg, u run 2 separate channels with over a million subscribers.
The exact same million subscribers btw
The
the other channel has over 2 million subscribers. ;P
Thanks for the Harold Holt reference! :-D
WHEN YOU SEE IT. WHEN YOU FUCKING SEE IT. WYSI.
ISI
1:20 I feel personally attacked as someone who lives in NJ.
Now excuse me as I get out of Newark before sundown
These day's it doesn't matter if it's daylight or dark.
1:25 “used to war conditions because they need to spend a lot of time in places like Newark”...lolololol
Hey
EWR is at least better than JFK
AviationGeek777
JFK:*Being busy*
Beijing capital airport:hold my patterns
Hehe
3:52 To date, only one plane larger than the 727 has truly disappeared without a trace
*shows varig 967*
MH 370: do I look like a joke to you?
some pieces of MH370 wreckage were found
i mean its somewhere in the south indian ocean....pretty big place lol
I've seen some some planes in unlikely places -- junkyards, restaurant parking lots, used as homes and boutique hotels. Maybe it landed somewhere, was dismantled, and is being used in the jungle as a home or storage bunker of some kind.
it landed in my backyard. been eating it piece by piece.
It's on the south end of the apron at an airport just north of Kinshasa, DRC near the Congo river. Parked next to an old 707.
Why do u say that ? Do u have any evidence its a match ??? And do you mean Maya Maya aiport, Brazzaville, Undemocratic Congo ?
IT WAS THE OSU PLAYERS
The Oregon State University students?
As a pilot; I approve of, and appreciate, the Newark joke.
Someday, when they finally find the plane:
*727!!!* *when you see it!!!*
osugame
blue zenith moment
I was expecting wysi comments but holy
*puts on tinfoil hat*
IT WAS THE ALIENS
I love how the Air Xenu Space Plane is a UPS DC-10. *The world on time*
Yeah the Scientologists actually believe in dc10 space planes
The Xenu space planes are actually DC-8s, according to the doctrine, not DC-10 as pictured in the video.
That’s FedEx
I heard about something similar to this once:
There are large portions of the Earth that do not have radar.
So the pilot landed it in one of these places and got it turned into pots and pans.
(Aka scrapped)
Kowalski, someone made a video about us. Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave!
The 727 was never found because it transformed into a 737. Find a mysterious appearance of the 737 and you solve the mystery! 😉
and they changed the title so your comment is getting a *BOWL TO THE FACE*
it evolved!
i swear it was an osu player
WYSI
0:28 - I'm afraid to ask what you had to Google to get that visual.
In all seriousness though, Newark airport is a disaster zone.
For a world class city, New York sure has some shitty airports!
Daniel V While Newark Liberty is certainly in the core of the NYC metro area, Newark and Elizabeth (the co-owner cities of Newark Liberty) are separate cities in a separate state entirely. The other two major airport hubs _are_ in NYC- JFK, which is of comparable scale to Newark Liberty, and LaGuardia, which is quite a bit smaller than the other two, but still decently sized as far as airports go. All three are operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and there’s a number of reasons why they suck to varying degrees- although Newark is definitely the worst lol. Mind you, it’s almost half the size of JFK but handles more flights. Also, age and limited space to construct new facilities without disrupting operations at one of the busiest air travel markets in the world is a big factor in why the airports are subpar by today’s standards. These are amongst some of the oldest airports in the world, in one of the most densely populated regions in the world and are certainly past their primes. All of this makes improving them very difficult. The other major issue is corruption and the lack of a political will to update this country’s aging infrastructure. But that problem is hardly unique to this part of the US, but rather the rule countrywide. JFK is getting some much needed improvements though.
Tl:dr Yeah, the air travel infrastructure in and around NYC kinda sucks by today’s standards, but the airports are old and built to the needs of their times. Age, lack of space to expand and volume of traffic make improvements hard to carry out without shutting stuff down in a busy market. Political incompetence is also a big issue, but that’s a problem nearly everywhere in the US, at all levels of government.
Daniel V that’s jersey
Just wanted to say that your project Extremities is really cool! 😊
Congrats on 1,000,000 subs!
As a pilot of those death tubes, I find it extremely strange that we lost this 727 and MH370
as someone who doesn't pilot them, i also find it strange
MH370 wreckage was found, but we still have no idea how it crashed.
@@Tigers9596 we didn't find a lot of wreckage though
@@adog3129 Yes, but we at least know it crashed and around where it did.
god knows someones gonna find this thing in a Nigerian scrap yard in a few years
A Nigerian prince already sent me an email asking for help to move a 727 out of his country...
5:06 This happened in a place VERY local to me. I recognized it right away.
www.king5.com/article/news/local/small-plane-crashes-on-busy-mukilteo-street/281-436150277
Wow that’s crazy congrats on 1m half as Sam
5:07 plane crash is in Mukilteo, WA on highway 525. Pilot had just taken off from Paine Field, which is just south Boeing's largest factory. The plane engine stalled and luckily he was able to slide through that intersection and down a road. A few cars were caught on fire and totaled but miraculously no one died including the pilot.
Edit: You can confirm by taking the longitude and latitude in the corner.
*sees HAI just uploaded*
Finger enters warp speed to open the video.
This is Africa, we can not service complicated machinery, but we know how to steal, break, and sell anything for the scrap value.
_Gonna take some time to do the things we never had... ooh ooh!_
@@buddyclem7328 ...there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do...🎤🎵🎶😎
I was missing plane videos, when suddenly: a missing plane video. Perfect!
Congrats for 1,000,000 subscribers!! Finally!!! You deserve it soo much 😂
727 when you WYSI it 😳
727 gets lost
HAI: types it like 737
Congrats on 1 million subs!!!
It probably landed somewhere near, be it an airport or a wide road. It was then transported inside an hangar and completely disassembled. Parts were later sold, and what couldn't be sold, was melted and used to build other metal parts and appliances.
No, I saw it too many times, and pretty tired at this point. But it was still a nice WYSI
Woah!!!Last time I was this early a manhole cover broke the sound barrier
The title should be 'How a Boeing727 was Stolen(And Never Found)
Ahhh... I see, another plane video. No matter what vid it is this channel never ceases to amaze me on how much they love to stick planes in videos...
As a person from NJ, the constant shots at Newark in these plane videos make my laugh so fucking hard. Newark is truly a war zone. I worked at the airport and hated it so much.
WHEN
YOU
SEE
IT
You should go deeper on the Varig 707, now that you mentioned it. Lots of speculation on that one. Valuable cargo, Russian conspiracy drama...
might be the next video in this series
Video suggestion: in my architectural history class we were told the legend that when the Empire State and Chrysler buildings were competing for tallest building in the world, one of them pretended to stall production so they other one would finish, and then put an extra bit on top that wasn't in the initially submitted plans! I've never looked it up because I don't want to find out this amusing legend is not true, but maybe you could do something about little tricks like that in the race to be the tallest building during the 1850-1950 skyscraper golden age?
Great video, enjoyed it!
i have been anticipating 1M subscribers for this channel
thumbnail and title not matching.
737 vs 727.
*CONFUSED CONFUSION*
It was a 727 in the thumbnail
Fixed
It's fixed
The thief prefers the term “borrowed”
I'm glad i found this channel. Thank
Thanks for finally mentioning PP-VLU
Mention about planes at 1:36
He thought he could hide the references without us noticing lol
At 4:09 also!
@@MrTimy06 Oh, nearly missed it! Glad you found it!
"Now, wars and ground based fuel supply chains go together like Taco Bell and Human digestive system- explosively"
Just found your channel. I'm addicted!!
Congrats on 1 million subs:D
when you see it
5:15 How? The answer is CuriosityStream. Without them, 100% would have survived.
dang it, this guy! he managed to sneak more planes into the video, like when he talked about that 727 that got stolen
I suspect it was out there for a while, and those looking for it probably have seen it, they just didn't know what they were looking at. I have heard about ships getting hijacked and have their identities changed to allow them to operate in plain sight. Someone had a messed up 727, stole this one and then operated it under the registry their original plane had. For further details watch the Movie "Gone in 60 seconds" (the original NOT the remake) .
727 funny number haha
wysi
Incoming witty jokes about HAI having an obsession with aircraft.
HAI has returned to its plane based natural habitat, yay!
That was probably the best ad transition I've ever heard at the end
3:54 "Only one plane larger than the 727 have gone missing without a trace"
MH370 *Gday Mate*
without a trace as in without a single wreckage or evidence that the plane crashed
Lots of 370 has been found
lol the fact that you think you’re right is funny
People searching for MH370 : "We can't find it anywhere!"
People who searched for this 727 : "First time?"
To be fair. They gave up after 30 days
His old voice sounds so strange and odd now
I give the bridge to the ad a solid 8/10. Well done.
He put 737 on purpose to get his video more views because of the 737 Max controversy
What’s the 737 max controversy?
Have you not heard? Its been a while now. Its been grounded due to a malfunction with the mcas causing planes to pitch up and down uncontrollably.
When my father was 11 years old he was flying back from a trip with his grandfather, when the plane crashed upon landing. The landing gear swept out from underneath the plane, and it slid into the grass beside the runway. Luckily no one was hurt. The plane was a Boeing 727. The people who inspected the crash suspect the pilot landed too hard, and the landing gear gave way.
Penguins of Madagascar:We need another plane.
Skipper:How about we steal a 777?
Private:How about we steal a Boeing 727?
Skipper:Nah that will never work. *I KNOW! HOW ABOUT WE STEAL A BOEING 727?!*
Plane: mysteriously takes and vanishes without a trace with not enough fuel to reach america
Usa:
*IT MIGHT BE HEADING FOR US*
You know what is way easier to steal than a plane? plane fuel!
@@SebastianHaban
Isn't it just kerosene anyway?
Your title says 737 instead of 727!
But the plane is a 727
No it's the other way round - the plane was a 727, the title is wrong.
WYSI
i wasn't expecting someone to say that lol
WYSI
Great video! As a commercial pilot this is super interesting and baffling
*Congrats on 1m subs!*