Air India Boeing 747-200 VT-EFJ - Frankfurt Photo

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Operator: Air India - VT-EFJ
Aircraft: Boeing - 747-200
Airport: Germany - Frankfurt
Category: Airliners
Photo taken on 1986-7- by Maarten-sr [Contact]

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(6.2.2010, 19:24 CET)
slidescan, look at the spare engine under the wing

1 JMQ95
(6. 2. 2010, 23:14 CET)
excellent photo ! why does this have a spare engine ?

2 Darryl Morrell
(6. 2. 2010, 23:41 CET)
it`s called a 5th engine, or basically just a pod which is bolted to the wing with a temporary pylon, this normally occurs when an airline wants to transport a dead engine back to somewhere else as it is the easiest way to carry it.............

3 Emanuel Linert
(7. 2. 2010, 11:59 CET)
Never seen before the 5th engine! Thanks for sharing this!

4 PMN
(12. 2. 2010, 02:54 CET)
Even the old -200's looked gorgeous in this scheme. Beautiful aircraft and wonderful photo. Nice catch with the engine in transit as well. This practice fell out of favour with the more widespread use of freighter aircraft. A shame really, it would be quite cool to see a Korean 74 or something like that depart LHR with a 5th engine!

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