Today my aunt surprised me by telling me she wanted to go plane spotting! Thinking I was conceiving another 'believer' I took her along and we spent 3 hours on the JIAP visitors gallery and I saw this IL-76 coming into land and while it was teetering on its main gears after touchdown, the application of the thrust reversers managed to lower the nose wheel. However what surprised me was that it taxied all the way to the international satellite and parked there which was most unusual because freighters do not park in this area and only 30 mins before another IL-76 had departed so its not like there was no room on the remote stand. I managed to take these pics of the plane.

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Moin Abbasi

hmm very un-usual spot.

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R 1 z . . . !

The cost of a proper maintenance programme can be very high but the cost of not commencing it, can be unthinkable.

This could very well be just a refuel stop for this IL-76 going/coming from Kabul.

See several unmarked russians at LHE too.

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