Air India hit with 13-year parking bill after rediscovering lost Boeing 737, it will now serve as a non-flying training platform for aviation maintenance technicians.

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a long-lost Boeing 737-200 that had been quietly sitting in a remote corner of India’s Kolkata Airport for more than a decade — a jet that somehow slipped entirely out of the memory of anyone at the airline.

Over the years, staff turnover and record-keeping gaps meant the jet gradually slipped out of the airline’s institutional record-keeping.

The confusion appears to have stemmed from administrative lapses dating back to mergers involving Indian Airlines and Air India, as well as the aircraft’s former use as a freighter for India Post.

The aircraft was taken out of service and parked on a remote pad at Kolkata Airport in 2012.

It is the 14th abandoned aircraft cleared from Kolkata Airport in the past five years.