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1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
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time.com/5201154/airplane-accidentally-spills-gold-all-over-the-runway/

"May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I saw the article and a picture, just amazing!!! :)

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From the photos, it appears the cargo was improperly secured. It shifted on takeoff and breached the cargo door. Someone will end up building bridges to nowhere at a new Tsar Vladimir Gulag Siberian Corrective Facility.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The USPS is launching a full scale internal investigation over the incident.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    Give me a broom....

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A real gold shower!!

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The insurance company must be a little miffed.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Geeez !!! :s

    Timbuk3
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @RogerB said:
    From the photos, it appears the cargo was improperly secured. It shifted on takeoff and breached the cargo door. Someone will end up building bridges to nowhere at a new Tsar Vladimir Gulag Siberian Corrective Facility.

    Who knows, they may be lucky it tumbled out. Might have been tough landing with all that weight in the far end of the tail.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The airline - Nimbus Airlines needs to change their name to Numbskull Airlines.

    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you didn't read the article, you might have missed that the bars weighted 20Kg each and were found as much as 26 KM from the runway.

    I'd love to have somebody drop a 20Kg gold bar in my backyard, I'd even dig a hole to retrieve it if I could keep it. But it could easily have destroyed a house or killed somebody.

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As I mentioned in another thread on this issue, I wonder who is guarding the guards.....there are retirement plans all over the runway.... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:
    If you didn't read the article, you might have missed that the bars weighted 20Kg each and were found as much as 26 KM from the runway.

    I'd love to have somebody drop a 20Kg gold bar in my backyard, I'd even dig a hole to retrieve it if I could keep it. But it could easily have destroyed a house or killed somebody.

    If I ever die, I want a 45lb gold bar to fall from the sky and do me in

    There's worse ways to go.

  • GazesGazes Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Imagine someone who desperately needed a 6 figure rare coin and praying for a miracle and then they look in their backyard to find a couple 20kg gold bars fall from the sky.....

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mueller is on his way to investigate ;)

    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Turns out it wasn't pure gold, but dore a partly refined gold/silver alloy.

    So since it's not pure, totally giving up on that whole "hit by a 45 pound ingot way to go" thing.

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:
    The USPS is launching a full scale internal investigation over the incident.

    Unless you're joking, you can't blame this one on the United States Postal Service.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Whole thing seems fishy to me....

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds like a little sensationalism BUT there is also a possibility someone located some union gold. https://msn.com/en-us/news/us/legend-says-a-load-of-union-gold-went-missing-during-the-civil-war-did-the-fbi-just-find-it/ar-BBKlMfT?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Lagina brothers are on their way with the Aussie metal detector guy.
    "Could it be.......???????"

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