Under a Swedish company called Transjet Airways, the aircraft carried Muslims in their pilgrimage to the holiest city, Mecca, and was also used for charter flights around the world. But when in 2002 serious “organizational problems” were discovered, the airplane was immediately grounded on one of the runways at Arlanda Airport, the largest international airport in Sweden, north of Stockholm. When Oscar Dios heard the rumor about a Boeing 747-200’s “corpse” all buried in oblivion, he came up with the magnificent idea of acquiring the 747 and converting it into a low-cost hostel.
