Comments on: Yak Hunting in Liberia

By: adrian marley

adrian marley — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:59:01 +0000

I’ve only recently discovered your excellent site and had to smile when I read this article. I recall a flight from Accra to Monrovia in, If not this a/c then certainly its sister. The fun started when I was booking the ticket at what for the time was a totally outrageous price. When I asked why I was told that if I was crazy enough to go there (there were troubles at the time) then I was crazy enough to pay the price!

There were perhaps eight passengers on the flight with one flight attendant in the cabin. In flight catering was one polystyrene cup (for everyone) and a bottle of water which was passed round. The cup being wiped before being passed on to the next person.

The corkscrew descent into MLW was not prewarned to us passengers but served to put us in a perfect frame of mind for the fun ahead once we landed. A few days later and departing on the same a/c at a climb rate just as scary as the descent rate I will always recall one of my fellow passengers looking out the window, turning back to his fellow passenger with a ” Thank f*** were out of there”

Ah memories!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 01:53:13 +0000

In reply to Thecrazeecow. Not a chance. The plane is far, far beyond any chance of becoming airworthy again. There are other Yak-40s out there still flying, however.

By: Thecrazeecow

Thecrazeecow — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 01:32:58 +0000

Do you think it is possible to restore the plane to flying condition? Maybe with modifications? Or is it just too broken?

By: Birthstone Color

Birthstone Color — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 02:01:20 +0000

Hello PATRICK, do you know if this particular YAK is available for sale? I’d love to keep a museum of old planes

By: Prince

Prince — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:57:07 +0000

Our technological advancements in this century are pretty impressive!

By: Goodson

Goodson — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:05:58 +0000

Great article, thank for sharing!

By: Roger Braatz

Roger Braatz — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:54:48 +0000

Speaking of “Looking for Yak’s in Liberia. I have a photo from an old magazine of a Liberia Air Transport. No registration number shown. Anybody know of this airline or have a photo of it?

Thanks

By: Kimber C. Turner

Kimber C. Turner — Fri, 01 May 2015 16:37:09 +0000

What a great post, Patrick. I am one of those who loves to see and climb through old abandoned aircraft as well. The group that used to be the Confederate Air Force had some old aircraft sitting in a clump in southern Texas sever (many) years ago and I was able to climb through them. I would love to get out to the desert and walk through the aircraft parked out there but would probably end up crying at so many regal, once useful machines just sitting there.

By: Howard Meredith

Howard Meredith — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:21:08 +0000

I worked as GM for Weasua during the period 1991/95 during and after the Liberian civil war.

Interesting story about this Yak 40 and how it has ended up.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 13:45:22 +0000

Very cool Patrick-

I echo everyone’s comments here.
I ride/train on my road bike around Bedford/Concord and miss my routine of swooping down into Hanscom Field and geeking out next to that old NW 727-100 parked behind the fence at the former NE Aero Tech hangar. That was so cool, because you could get right next to it.
Do you know if it got scrapped or just moved somewhere else- maybe indoors?
(I grew up in MSP with many NW 727 pilot family friends)

…retired classics are always fascinating to me