CS-TMP was finally sunk in the Red Sea, near Aqaba

In April of this year, photos of CS-TMP could be seen with the aircraft laying with its wings clipped, near the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba.

CS-TMP © Fábio Conceição

Information was spread that it was intended to sink the airframe to become an artificial reef and to serve as an attraction to scuba divers. Last 26th of August, CS-TMP was finally sunk with its wings and horizontal stabilizers re-attached.

Several websites covered the sinking of the airplane:

• A Lockheed L-1011 TriStar joins Aqaba’s Underwater Military museum

• Aqaba: The Scuttling of a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar Plane

• The Telegraph - Pictures of the Day: 30 August 2019

• Se sumerge avión comercial en desuso en Museo Militar Subacuático de Aqaba

The updated status of ex-Portuguese TriStar fleet is the following:

MSN 1206 euroAtlantic CS-TMX - scrapped at Lisbon (LIS)

MSN 1240 euroAtlantic CS-TEB - stored at Amman (ADJ)

MSN 1241 Luzair CS-TMR - re-registered N91011; stored at Victorville (VCV)

MSN 1248 Luzair CS-TMP - sunk in the Gulf of Aqaba

• Aircraft Fleet: MSN193H-1248