Plane Carrying Tons of Gold And Silver Bars Loses Cargo During Takeoff

[jpak]

http://www.newsweek.com/plane-carrying-9-tons-gold-and-silver-blocks-loses-cargo-during-takeoff-846738

A Russian AN-12 transport plane carrying approximately 9 tons of gold blocks, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, lost a third of its cargo as it was taking off from the Yakutsk Airport in eastern Siberia on Thursday.

According to local reports, the plane’s hatch door snapped during liftoff. The bars of doré, a semi-pure alloy of gold and silver, dropped out of the aircraft and onto the runway.

The airport’s press service told Russian news agency Tass the technicians may have failed to properly secure the cargo. After the incident, various pieces of the plane’s fuselage were reportedly found on the ground near the runway—along with dozens of gold and silver bars.

A police spokesperson said five crewmembers were on the plane and none were hurt in the incident. He confirmed that a "total of 172 gold bars weighing 3.4 tons" dropped out of the plane, reported Tass.

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[louis-t]

1. Yet an airline will charge you a fee if yer suitcase is 1 lb. over the limit.

Gold bars are frikken heavy!

[Angry Dragon]

2. payoff for Trump??

[dalton99a]

3. Gotta move the loot somewhere

[Clarity2]

4. Mmmhmm

A likely story. More like a heist to look like an accident.

[Sanity Claws]

5. Wonder whether it was too heavy to carry

[Wwcd]

6. Sooo, the planes hatch door just happened to snap open during liftoff..

..with all that gold onboard.

Mmmhmmm


Someone's a little bit richer today 😉💰💰💰💰💰

See post #4 💰💰💰

[panader0]

7. 9 tons? How about 363 tons of BILLS sent to Iraq? That disappeared? From Reuters:

The money, which had been held by the United States, came from Iraqi oil exports, surplus dollars from the U.N.-run oil-for-food program and frozen assets belonging to the ousted Saddam Hussein regime.

Bills weighing a total of 363 tons were loaded onto military aircraft in the largest cash shipments ever made by the Federal Reserve, said Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that’s exactly what our government did,” the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.

[marble falls]

8. Every time it rains it pours ....

kopeks from heaven.....

[Motley13]

9. Putin is moving part of his $200 billion, in case he loses the election

[lindysalsagal]

10. Seriously- Even in russia, you can't hide the owner of the gold forever...

Someone is going to find out who's gold it was...and where it was going, and why.

[EX500rider]

11. I don't think there was any confusion over who owned it..

All of the bars have now been recovered, a spokesman for the Canadian mine owner told news agency Interfax.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43416950

[monmouth4]

12. I look forward to a great Tom Cruise movie on this incident..n/t