Article: From retired aircraft: Transplanted parts Recycling airplanes becomes a global growth industry in waste management MARKETPLACE by Bloomberg

Tara Patel Bloomberg News
International Herald Tribune
12-12-2007
From retired aircraft: Transplanted parts Recycling airplanes becomes a global growth industry in waste management MARKETPLACE by Bloomberg
Byline: Tara Patel Bloomberg News
Edition: 4
Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS

PARIS --

On the runway at Kano airport in Nigeria sit the remains of an airplane with entrails picked apart like a carcass on the African savannah.

"It's easy to imagine how the spare parts could get into the market," Martin Fraissignes, executive director of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association, said as he displayed photographs of the plane at a conference on air transport and the environment in Paris last week.
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