This aircraft was later converted to a freighter for China Airlines and flew as B-18753. She was sold to Kalitta in 2002 and destroyed in a take off accident in Colombia in 2008.

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Back when China Airlines seemed to be crashing something every other month...... This one was the result of bad pilots, like almost all the crashes of China Airlines. Happily today things seemed to have improved.

As you can see in this photo the titles were painted out, I assume in the hope to protect the image of China Airlines :)

This plane was only 5 months old................

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I hear people say the SP was ugly, I never thought that. I always thought it was special.

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Not the most interesting subject but the weather was very nice. One of the cars from the Ngong Ping 360 system is visible in this photo.

Never think of these A330's as very old but this one is nearly 10 years old now.

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Back to 2006 for this one and a view that's sadly not available anymore.....

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