Why Popular Airplanes Are Getting Scrapped Early

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Engine And Parts Shortages Pushing Some Owners To Dismantle Young Aircraft In May, an Airbus A320neo, one of the world’s most popular planes, that rolled off the Mobile, Alabama, factory line in July 2022, painted bright yellow for its next destination Spirit Airlines, has already been stripped for parts worth millions and crushed. The plane was built to fly for decades, but crushed as the steel teeth of an excavator tore through its fuselage at a facility on the outskirts of Phoenix in G

Originally published at aero-news.net.