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April 6th, 2005, 15:44
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Socal
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|  Strangest Cargo
On Pprune there is a post with the strangest cargo - it includes 747 from London to Brazil full of condoms A veried selection of wild animals (lions, tigers, elephants, Cows, you name it) Airplanes full of Penthouse Magazine, and Victoria Secret underwear. Sand (must be special; cost of cargo $5000 - cost of Shipment $100,000) Empty Boxes Balloons 26 tons of beer and toilet roll |
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April 6th, 2005, 17:06
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| Administrator  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Pinal Airpark
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
A box that was buzzing when I delivered it to Bullhead City Airport. It was addressed to a single lady.
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April 6th, 2005, 18:12
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| Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Socal
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
[ QUOTE ] A box that was buzzing when I delivered it to Bullhead City Airport. It was addressed to a single lady. [/ QUOTE ] New alarm clock for her cookies! |
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April 7th, 2005, 00:31
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: LCK
Posts: 1,654
| Re: Strangest Cargo
Did a checkout for a guy who flew $250,000,000 of $100 bills to Rome in a DC-8. (btw, it weighs 13,000 lbs including packing materials) |
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April 7th, 2005, 00:49
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pleasanton, CA
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[ QUOTE ] Did a checkout for a guy who flew $250,000,000 of $100 bills to Rome in a DC-8. [/ QUOTE ] Daaang, I'm surprised they let him know that he was carrying that, might not have seen him, the cargo, or that plane again!  |
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April 7th, 2005, 01:41
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| Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Socal
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Did a checkout for a guy who flew $250,000,000 of $100 bills to Rome in a DC-8. [/ QUOTE ] Daaang, I'm surprised they let him know that he was carrying that, might not have seen him, the cargo, or that plane again! [/ QUOTE ] Money movement is frequent on cargo airplanes, as is gold. |
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April 7th, 2005, 03:38
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pleasanton, CA
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
[ QUOTE ] Money movement is frequent on cargo airplanes, as is gold. [/ QUOTE ] I can see a con scam just waiting to be hatched!  |
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April 7th, 2005, 10:22
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| Old Skool Join Date: May 2002 Location: LCK
Posts: 1,654
| Re: Strangest Cargo
They were trying to get them to ship $1,000,000,000 but their insurance wouldn't cover it.
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April 9th, 2005, 17:57
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| Newbie  Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Denver, CO
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
Dead dogs for animal research. Anything that said, "Radioactive, Biohazard, or corrosive", rode in the very back away from me.
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April 9th, 2005, 22:42
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Anchorage, AK
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Well, seeing as how one of my jobs is clearing international 747s through customs here in ANC, I've seen some strange stuff. The vast majority of it is Chinese consumer crap, but I also see a lot of spandex and lingerie. Strangest thing I ever saw on an airwaybill was a crate of 47 severed monkey heads bound for JFK on Air China. Makes me think of a certain scene from an Indiana Jones movie..... |
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April 10th, 2005, 01:34
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: On your TCAS
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[ QUOTE ] Strangest thing I ever saw on an airwaybill was a crate of 47 severed monkey heads bound for JFK on Air China. [/ QUOTE ] FYI, that crate made it to my house OK except one of the heads was obviously damaged in shipping. Know anything about that?  |
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April 11th, 2005, 22:57
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Houston, Tx
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Strangest thing I ever saw on an airwaybill was a crate of 47 severed monkey heads bound for JFK on Air China. [/ QUOTE ] FYI, that crate made it to my house OK except one of the heads was obviously damaged in shipping. Know anything about that? [/ QUOTE ] I dont care who you are thats funny right there.   |
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April 19th, 2005, 03:48
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: DFW, based back in EWR, wishing I was in Maine
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Well, I'm 121... but having a cooler full of human eyeballs in the cockpit was kind of wierd. Bob |
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April 20th, 2005, 18:55
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Passing through O' Hare
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
[ QUOTE ] On Pprune there is a post with the strangest cargo - it includes 747 from London to Brazil full of condoms A veried selection of wild animals (lions, tigers, elephants, Cows, you name it) Airplanes full of Penthouse Magazine, and Victoria Secret underwear. Sand (must be special; cost of cargo $5000 - cost of Shipment $100,000) Empty Boxes Balloons 26 tons of beer and toilet roll [/ QUOTE ] I think I was at that party  I still have sand in my skivvies  |
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April 20th, 2005, 20:01
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: On your TCAS
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
[ QUOTE ] Well, I'm 121... but having a cooler full of human eyeballs in the cockpit was kind of wierd. [/ QUOTE ] Well, you know what they say about see-and-avoid: it always helps to have an extra set of eyes in the cockpit... |
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April 20th, 2005, 20:29
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Redding, CA
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Two nights ago, I carried a large box with a dead animal going to a university lab. The box didnt seem like the insulated type and it smelled reall bad. I loaded it very AFT and ran all the heater and vents up front!
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April 21st, 2005, 00:21
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| Old Skool Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: DFW, based back in EWR, wishing I was in Maine
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Well, I'm 121... but having a cooler full of human eyeballs in the cockpit was kind of wierd. [/ QUOTE ] Well, you know what they say about see-and-avoid: it always helps to have an extra set of eyes in the cockpit... [/ QUOTE ] Doh! Your killin' me!  |
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April 21st, 2005, 00:58
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ft. Lauderdale
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I worked for Capital Cargo for a year at FLL, working on their 727s. We basically handled the cargo for BAX when their DC-8s were grounded. ANyway, we got some crazy stuff come through our facility: -LOTS of airplane parts (landing gears, engines, sections of wing,etc) -Cryogenic containers filled with bull sperm for use on farms...Label said "Bovine Semen" ......gross -Dead bodies -sections of crashed cars..who knows why -A few shipments of hundreds of mice for lab research -30 very large plasma screen TVs.. One dropped -For some reason we would ship lots of dutchmaster cigars to India. Like hundreds of pounds worth. I guess they like crappy cigars. Some nights we would have a 727 filled with ladies shoes from a company that shall remain nameless because I hatttteee them now for having to shrink wrap hundreds of ugly shoes/boxes. |
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April 21st, 2005, 11:11
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: On your TCAS
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
The 'interesting' stuff I have flown: 3000 pounds of baby chickens from LAX to Hermosillo, Mexico. They had been shipped to LAX from Germany. A jet engine (flown from Clarksburg, Pratt and Whitney has some facilities there) that was in a huge crate - barely fit into our cargo door. Flew a planeful of brand newly manufactured cell phones from Chihuahua to Illinois. I don't remember the exact weight, but it was probably 3000 pounds or something like that. That's a TON and a HALF of cell phones. The shipping papers had the "total retail value" listed, and again, I don't remember the exact number but it was well into the 6-figure range... 9000 pounds of car tires. A small bundle of long steel rods. Ours was one of the few planes that would fit them, since they were so long. They started their journey up in Ohio someplace - another company flew them to Laredo where we picked them up and flew them down into Mexico. Apparently they were going to be melted down for some reason. Flyinyourshorts needs to chime in on this one - he's flown some neat stuff. |
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April 24th, 2005, 23:12
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2004
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I had some boxes of live queen bees on the luggage cart today. Each box had a mesh window on each side that you could see the bees through. Kinda weird.
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April 25th, 2005, 10:10
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DTW
Posts: 1,872
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My old company had military contract and we flew some wierd stuff. Some stuff was in locked boxes and the paper work was blank just with a contact number on it. Also got to haul the Anthrax vaccine.. Also got to fly out of DCA one last time in a 310
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May 1st, 2005, 19:01
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: BNA 107*/37
Posts: 29
| Re: Strangest Cargo
Lets see, strange things i've hauled...... I can't remember his name, but a BIG male gorilla from MIA to SDF to be mated with a female. The only cargo flight i've ever had catered(for the handlers and us) One dead body from San Juan to Port au Prince. That was a LONG day..... the sad part was the first body they gave us was the WRONG one  A bee hive, with the queen in a whole little box of her own. Bull and horse semen in a blue can that looked like an atom bomb. 7000lbs of colored baby chicks for easter, back in the glory days of Postal flying(remember that looking4lower?) A video tape..... that's it, just a video tape 4000lbs of blue lav water to Nassau Metallica's band equippment Neil Young's band equippment Concrete blocks 1500lbs of snow shovels..... in July 13,000lbs of John Madden's NFL 2004 for X-box and PS2 A kilo of Coke...... didn't know about that one until after it had been on two other airplanes after mine. Just another day in the life of a freight dog. |
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May 1st, 2005, 19:18
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: On your TCAS
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
[ QUOTE ] A video tape..... that's it, just a video tape [/ QUOTE ] The original Paris Hilton video? |
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May 2nd, 2005, 00:04
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: BNA 107*/37
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| Re: Strangest Cargo
That was back around the Pam and Tommy days.....
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May 2nd, 2005, 02:56
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| Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ft. Lauderdale
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[ QUOTE ] A kilo of Coke...... didn't know about that one until after it had been on two other airplanes after mine. [/ QUOTE ] Surrre |
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