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Deli Mike
Airbus A340 aircraft with strange unreliability / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deli Mike or Deli Mayk (English: Crazy Mike) is a nickname given to an Airbus A340-300 operated by Turkish Airlines with civil registration TC-JDM. The aircraft joined the Turkish Airlines fleet in 1996 to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s of the airline and was used to operate long-haul flights out of Turkey. During its operation, Deli Mike had a record of having minor and strange technical failures such as its lights illuminating differently. This unreliability gave the aircraft its nickname, which is a wordplay on the ICAO spelling alphabet. In its late use, the aircraft operated both long-haul and short-haul flights. It was re-configured in 2016 to only have economy class seats and was solely used to carry pilgrims to Hajj.
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Other name(s) | Deli Mayk İzmir |
Type | Airbus A340-300 |
Manufacturer | Airbus |
Construction number | 115 |
Manufactured | 1996 |
Registration | TC-JDM 2-AVRA XT-AKK EP-MJC |
First flight | 27 February 1996 |
Owners and operators | Turkish Airlines Mahan Air |
In service | 1996–2019 2024– |
Deli Mike was removed from the Turkish Airlines fleet in early 2019 and was flown to O. R. Tambo International Airport later that year and re-registered as 2-AVRA. After being stored at Johannesburg for almost 4 years, the aircraft was flown to Mehrabad International Airport in December 2022. The aircraft was allegedly acquired by a Burkinabe subsidiary of Iranian carrier Mahan Air in order to evade sanctions placed on the airline and country. The aircraft commenced operations with airline in March 2024 as EP-MJC.