3 abandoned jets clutter large airport

Attention owners of three jumbo jets parked at Malaysia's largest airport: Please remove your aircraft immediately, or authorities will.

The country's airport operator took the unusual step of posting photos in two major newspapers of the three Boeing 747-200s that have been sitting idle for more than a year. The notice this week warns the owners that the airport has the right to sell or dispose of the planes unless they are collected within 14 days.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport General Manager Zainol Mohamad Isa said on Wednesday that such a notice is normal in a bid to recover debts owed to Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, the airports' holding company, after exhaustive but futile efforts to locate the owners. They are believed to be foreign entities that possibly have ceased operations.