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An Airbus A320neo rolled off the Mobile, Alabama, factory line in July 2022, painted bright yellow for Spirit Airlines. The aircraft was intended to serve for decades. In May 2026, less than four years later, the plane was stripped for parts worth millions and then crushed by an excavator at a facility outside Phoenix. The demolition involved the excavator’s steel teeth tearing through the fuselage. The event highlights the early scrapping of popular aircraft models.

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