What happended to 9V-SQB?

[SMK77]

I was at the airport on Wednesday morning and 9V-SQB was parked at the gate next to mine. The paint on the left side above the windows was largely scratched off and it looked like there was a long dent in the roof along the whole body over the windows as well...

[9V-JKL]

Suppose to be 'scoot' off to become 9V-OTB

[milehighj]

Suppose to be 'scoot' off to become 9V-OTB

Think the question was what happened to SQB?, rather than what's gonna happen to SQB...

[sealalula]

Nothing happened? It flew off as SQ972 this morning.

[SilverChris]

Nothing happened? It flew off as SQ972 this morning.

Perhaps you should take a look at 9V-JKL's reply

[9V-JKL]

Think the question was what happened to SQB?, rather than what's gonna happen to SQB...

Okayyyyyyyy..........

[thestrad1713]

Ya I saw it too this afternoon at T2! They should do something about it even if it will be Scoot's soon!

[MARK1992]

Happened to catch her in her weary state.


9V-SQB Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-212/ER by Mark. Wong, on Flickr

[mr_botak]

Looks like they pulled it out of repaint unfinished. Is capacity that desperately needed at SQ?

[FN-GM]

Looks like they pulled it out of repaint unfinished. Is capacity that desperately needed at SQ?

I doubt it as its going to be leaving the fleet very soon.

[LOWJHG]

that looks like the older paint scheme, did she just come out of the desert?

[FSJZ]

I saw her parked yesterday (5 June) at T2 doing a normal flight. IIRC, the scratch was not there.

[SQGamespeed]

I wonder what city it was flying back from. I feel pity for passengers who had to fly
the plane in this sorry state. Also, I guess this is one of the non-AVOD birds? If so,
it would be double whammy.

[viraj735]

that looks like the older paint scheme, did she just come out of the desert?

Nope. She's been in service the whole time. Had the (mis)fortune of flying her BKK-SIN back in Feb.

[SQ228]

I wonder what city it was flying back from. I feel pity for passengers who had to fly
the plane in this sorry state. Also, I guess this is one of the non-AVOD birds? If so,
it would be double whammy.

If flight24.com is to be believed (I have issues with its accuracy) SQB has been flying back and forth from Jakarta and Bangkok to Singapore, often several times a day. It's been sent to Perth a bit too in the past month.

I'm a little dubious about the data on that site though. It seems to just be fed in by plane spotters, some of whom send in conflicting information which the database doesn't know what to do with. Some planes take off to 2 or 3 long-haul destinations all on the same date, while searching by flights brings up lists that are physically impossible unless the aircraft were zombie Concordes.