Strangest Cargo

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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
 
A box that was buzzing when I delivered it to Bullhead City Airport. It was addressed to a single lady.
 
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A box that was buzzing when I delivered it to Bullhead City Airport. It was addressed to a single lady.

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New alarm clock for her cookies!
 
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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Did a checkout for a guy who flew $250,000,000 of $100 bills to Rome in a DC-8.

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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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Did a checkout for a guy who flew $250,000,000 of $100 bills to Rome in a DC-8.

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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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Money movement is frequent on cargo airplanes, as is gold.
 
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Money movement is frequent on cargo airplanes, as is gold.

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I can see a con scam just waiting to be hatched!
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They were trying to get them to ship $1,000,000,000 but their insurance wouldn't cover it.
 
Dead dogs for animal research. Anything that said, "Radioactive, Biohazard, or corrosive", rode in the very back away from me.
 
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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Strangest thing I ever saw on an airwaybill was a crate of 47 severed monkey heads bound for JFK on Air China.

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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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Strangest thing I ever saw on an airwaybill was a crate of 47 severed monkey heads bound for JFK on Air China.

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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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I dont care who you are thats funny right there.
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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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I think I was at that party
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I still have sand in my skivvies
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Well, I'm 121... but having a cooler full of human eyeballs in the cockpit was kind of wierd.

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Well, you know what they say about see-and-avoid: it always helps to have an extra set of eyes in the cockpit...
 
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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Well, I'm 121... but having a cooler full of human eyeballs in the cockpit was kind of wierd.

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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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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
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-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.
 
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.
 
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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