From here.


https://www.nairaland.com/3739835/graveyard-nigerias-dead-airplanes-photos






Commercial aircrafts are vital for our ways of life, these aircrafts circles the globe, helping businesses grow, bridging gaps between nations, tourism, and bringing families together.

The Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) is a cooperative of over 70 companies from 20 countries that felt there's a better, safer, and environmentally preferred way of recycling aircrafts that have reached the end of their services.

After use of flying, their successful career paved way for a new life.

As one career ends, another begins.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdcA5PZzQA

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Retirement.



Airplanes have many uses after they retire from the commercial services.

Some are used in the private sector, refurbished, and continue flying.

Some are used as training aircrafts for aviation, military, and law enforcement agencies..

Some are used for museum pieces or movie production.

However, the majority of retired aircrafts ends up in boneyard or airplane graveyard where they find another purpose entirely.

Most of these planes are sold to aviation part companies for dismantling or recycling.

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Recycling.



Parts removed from the airplanes are carefully transported to quarantine area where the components are cleaned, inspected, tagged, and stored.

Components/parts identification tag.

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There are many valuable components on a retired aircraft, the first components of the plane to be removed are the engines.

These are enormous and can weigh up to 6tons.

Sometimes the engine can be reused and therefore making it one of the most valuable reuseable components on of a plane.

Many of the engines are parted out in scraps for the titanium and other valuable metals.

I'm with you on this Mr explorers

Fuselage.



Inside the passenger cabin, seats, side walls, luggage bins, ceiling panels, lockers, carpets and anything that is not metalic are removed.

These items are considered non-recyclable in the past, but the industry is working on better ways to to recycle these items.

Once the fuselage is clean and the items are removed for reuse or recycling, the crew prepares to scrap the plane.

Dissecting an aircraft is extremely hazardous and must be carefully performed to maintain safety for the crew and the environment.

Depending on the size and function of the plane, it can take as little as a week and as much as 6weeks to process and prepare a the plane for recycling.

These airplanes are surveyed for metals such as titanium, magnesium, and stainless steel.

These materials are seperated from the aluminium that is the recycle metal on the aircraft.

quite educative

When the airplane has been scrapped, the materials are sent to recycling facility where the materials are weighed, and inspected.

The recycling facility also documents the grade and purity of the materials at all time throughout the process.

After the materials have been seperated, they are transported to be recycled.

The materials are then pushed into the furnace to be melted down for new uses.

As aircrafts are disassembled, recycled, reduced to shreded metals, newer and environmentally preferred aircrafts are built to replace them.

Very Educative explorers!! Thank You

Aircrafts have been and will always be an important part of global transportation network.

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Nice and informative.

Well done explorers.

*Walk In*

Grab Pen and Notepad

Explorers, Continue.

Learnt something new today.. Thank you explorers. And how's your honeymoon?

I wonder how big the equipments used to dismantle planes are...

Man has gone really far indeed....

I wonder how big the equipments used to dismantle planes are...

Man has gone really far indeed....