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Russian Antonov An-12 loses its $368 million cargo of silver, platinum and diamonds on takeoff from Yakutsk airport

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The plane with ten tons of silver, platinum and diamonds lost part of its cargo after taking off from Yakutsk airport today. The Nimbus Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo suffered problems during takeoff. Part of the cargo fell out of the hold all over the runway. The plane then dropped some bars of silver as far as 26 kilometres from the airport. (www.airlive.net) More...

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thexderx
Tom Byrne 1
Ha ha - suspicious much! Gold and silver, not cheap wine or vodka...those sneaky Russians.
TorstenHoff
Torsten Hoff 1
A few pictures and even video:

http://www.aviationanalysis.net/2018/03/russian-AN12-suffers-cargo-door-failure.html
jeff8478
Jeff Bishop 4
Some people will be shot.
Cansojr
Cansojr 1
They still are!
cos3asg
cos3asg 4
And, just to toss my own thought in, I'll put a wager out there that vodka was involved, too!!
tyleremtage
Tyler Emtage 1
All we have to realize is that they are Russians that's all.

fdea
Gee that doesn't sound suspicious at all!!
Moviela
Ric Wernicke 4
Why would anyone send such valuable cargo on a single airplane?

Oh, I see they are Russians. All the intelligent people are intefering with American elections.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 2
Im sure it’s being returned as we speak.
avihais
Meanwhile the local mob leader is really pissed and shot someone.
Cansojr
Cansojr 1
No one dropped out of a plane yet?
royhunte92
Roy Hunte 1
What an expensive problem.
bentwing60
bentwing60 4
This is as funny as it gets. Any freight dog knows there are wing bend, max floor, max takeoff weight limitations and they get exceeded regularly and bigly on occasion. The funny part is this time it wasn't dog food, oil field equipment ,or sacks of potatoes. That's what has been happenin since it was built "at least" before 1973! Wish they had been over my house. Can you say structural failure?
Cansojr
Cansojr 1
Or a very clever conspiracy...just be in your bomb shelter once all those silver
raisins and peanuts pound your house to dust.

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