airsLLide No. 22015: UR-07698, Antonov 2, ex Odessa Airlines, Odessa, August 3, 2002
Lost and forgotten: Still in the typical cream livery of Aeroflot's agricultural flight divisions, UR-07698 has received a new Ukrainian tail mark when she was officially transferred to the inventory of the local former Aeroflot division that became Odessa Airlines. She was one of at least six agricultural Antonov 2s assigned to the location in Soviet times already, but despite the effort to transfer her into the register of the successing State, she has obviously long lost her abilities to fly. Not only is she missing her propeller, but she has also lost most of the fabric covering her wings and control surfaces, giving her an eerie look of a avian skeleton.
Her two sisters in the background were still in working condition, it seems that nobody even bothered removing her carcass from the operational tarmac - she was just left sitting and rotting amidst the rest of the fleet.
