For 13 years, Kolkata airport’s castaway craft: Shorn of roof, parent changed, now sold by Air India

Calcutta airport has finally bid goodbye to an unwanted guest, a hulking Boeing B737-200 that its owner Air India had forgotten for 13 years.

Sources said the airline only recently realised that one of its aircraft had been lying abandoned in Calcutta since 2012 and decided to sell it.

They said the 43-year-old aircraft was sold through an agent and, the week before last, ferried by road to Bengaluru where it will be used for the ground training of air crew.