Kuwaiti firm abandons bid to seize Gaddafi’s “Air Force One”

A bid by a Kuwaiti construction company to seize a luxury airliner once used by Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has ended after a court decided that the jet belongs to the state.

Perpignan Lybian Airbus A340 5A-ONE 01
By Ad Meskens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The Al-Kharafi Construction Group had hoped to take ownership of the A340 – now stuck in France – as settlement for the cancellation of a Tripoli tourism project.