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What is the fate of 9M-MTA?

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Aircraft rego is 9M-MTA (first A330-300 delivered to MAS)

The aircraft had an incident in Melbourne last year where is was reported to have touched down too hard, causing structural damage. The plane was grounded for months to be fixed and eventually delivered back to Malaysia.


Delivery back to Malaysia is painful and slow, plane had to fly at 13,000ft. with gear down (not sure why, I was tracking that particular flight as well)) and resulted in high fuel consumption.

It had to refuel in Darwin before making it's way back to KUL.



Since then I have checked and it has some flights to Delhi and Beijing and Auckland then it stopped flying.

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It went back into full time service and was a regular here in Perth after it was repaired.

 

Any chance it's being 'rebranded' or in maintenance?

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It went back into full time service and was a regular here in Perth after it was repaired.

 

Any chance it's being 'rebranded' or in maintenance?

 

Business Seat class upgrade perhaps for the A333 fleet so beginning with MTA? Just guessing.

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Well, if you are to believe the MH folks at BKI, more specifically those managing their lounge there, 9M-MTA has now morphed (regressively perhaps ?) to a hitherto unidentified A300 variant :D

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Edited by BC Tam

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Well, if you are to believe the MH folks at BKI, more specifically those managing their lounge there, 9M-MTA has now morphed (regressively perhaps ?) to a hitherto unidentified A300 variant :D

skWWES5.jpg

 

nice transformation. :friends:

saw this model at Mas Admin building with this livery on my last visit, 04Nov.. during the MASWings "Garage" sale. my first though is, A330 with no winglet. :search:

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Well, if you are to believe the MH folks at BKI, more specifically those managing their lounge there, 9M-MTA has now morphed (regressively perhaps ?) to a hitherto unidentified A300 variant :D

skWWES5.jpg

 

Wow, this could possibly the A300 model which I saw during my childhood in MAS office in Kota Kinabalu.

 

There is also a cut-away model with seatings and etc. Along with a DC-10 IIRC?

Just checked. 9M-MTA is flying and she is being utilised regularly.

Edited by S V Choong

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Not sure if these are the same model I used to see in Mas office Karamunsing. I recalled those models you can see the internal seating.

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Wow, this could possibly the A300 model which I saw during my childhood in MAS office in Kota Kinabalu.

'Recycling' is the big in-thing nowadays :D Edited by BC Tam

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