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PACIFIC AIRLINES DOESN'T PAY THEIR BILLS
Vietnam’s Pacific Airlines Fails To Pay More Than $10 Million So Planes Repossessed.
On the 26th January 2005 James Nixon conducted the last flight in S7 RGJ, a Pacific Airlines A321, from Saigon to Hanoi, Vietnam.
The Aircraft was parked, manuals, headsets and other ORION documentation removed from the flight deck and the aircraft locked-up.
At 0800 on the 27th the leasing company removed S7-RGL's registration from the Seychelles register, preventing the aircraft from being flown.
The Pilots on the associated contract with Orion Air, the company owed money by Pacific Airlines, have now been retrenched
First published 26th Jan 2005