A site in Bangkok, Thailand serves as an airplane graveyard for jetliners formerly operated by Orient Thai Airlines, and has become an unconventional tourist attraction. (Dax Ward/Barcroft Images)

In Bangkok, Thailand, a site where two abandoned airplanes have been left to rot, has become an unusual tourist attraction. The airplane graveyard is home to MD-82 jetliners that were formerly operated by Orient Thai Airlines but now left to decay in the elements. The airplanes are now covered in rust and graffiti and their interiors have been stripped, but tourists pay up to 300 baht (around $8) to visit the eerie remains of the planes, which still have their bathrooms and carpeting intact.

Bangkok-based photographer Dax Ward, 36, visited the airplane graveyard in March, to capture images of the abandoned airplanes. "'It is very eerie in the graveyard," he said. "There are children's toys and other personal objects scattered around, left by people who have stayed there for whatever reason, almost making it feel like a crash site."

According to Ward, the airplanes were abandoned in the site after a business venture to convert the planes into an outdoor bar and concert venue failed. "The project was a fiasco and the foreign investor left the site as it is," he said. "As far as I know, there are currently no plans to move them, although the land upon which they rest is quite expensive."

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Although original plans to transform the airplanes into an attraction failed due to lack of funding, the site has become a popular tourist attraction because of the eerie sight of the derelict planes, which still have oxygen masks, safety manuals and other debris scattered about. It's not surprising that many believe the site to be haunted.

"Thailand is a country that flourishes with culture, and such dynamic cultures tend to also include a deeply-rooted spiritual dimension," Ward said. "It is filled with ghost stories and superstitions regarding spirits and locations which are haunted by them."

Photographing the abandoned planes, Ward said he learned to appreciate the feats of engineering and physics involved in the building and operation of the jetliners. "Those of us that travel regularly get so used to aeroplane transit that we sometimes forget all that is involved in a single flight," he said.

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