Final Landing

Planes are incredibly expensive to build, and even more expensive to buy. You'd have thought that once one's been completed, someone will care for it for the rest of its useful life. You'd be wrong.

We don't know how this old TU-144 supersonic passenger jet came to be abandoned on the outskirts of Kazan City, but we do know it's been there for a long time. According to the people who've been for a closer look, the engine is still in place, and the moving parts still work. Could it fly again?

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