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The 30-year-old Boeing 757-200 of the bankrupt Equatorial Congo Airlines, which has been languishing at Brussels Airport for eight years, has been dismantled since this week. The airport has sold the aircraft to the company Eco Fly, which is disassembling it in order to be able to reuse the valuable parts, reports news agency Belga.
Equatorial Congo Airlines (ECAir) from Congo-Brazzaville, Africa, suspended operations in 2016 after it could no longer pay its bills. A number of the airline's aircraft that were parked at Brussels Airport were seized by a bailiff. Of these, only the 757 with registration HB-JJE is still there.
PrivatAir
ECAir was founded in 2010 by the government of Congo-Brazzaville with the help of PrivatAir, a Swiss wet-lease specialist that at the time flew a 737BBJ between Schiphol and Houston for KLM, among others. In order not to be on the European blacklist, some of the aircraft were flown by PrivatAir, hence the Swiss prexif HB in the registration.
Partly due to the demise of ECAir, PrivatAir also went bankrupt in 2018.
Dismantling
Due to the seizure of the 757, Brussels Airport was unable to do much with it for a long time, but in the end the airport managed to get hold of the aircraft. Now it has been sold to Eco Fly to be dismantled. That process is expected to be completed by the end of March. Due to its advanced age and long period without maintenance, recommissioning by another company was not an option.
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