Russian Plane Loses Gold Bars Worth $378 M After Door Breaks

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I'm sure the count will come up short.

A plane laden with tonnes of gold-silver alloy was taking off from Yakutsk airport in Siberia when a loading hatch broke off.

Some 200 bars, each weighing about 20kg (44 pounds), were then scattered across the runway.

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

The local YakutiaMedia news website cited witnesses as saying that they spotted gold bars, as well as diamonds and bars of platinum across the runway.

Police arrived to the scene and cordoned off the area surrounding the runway, YakutiaMedia reported.

At least 172 bars of gold weighing 3.4 tons have been recovered from the area, an Interior Ministry source told the state-run TASS news agency.

The Mash news Telegram channel calculated the value of the gold to be 21.6 billion rubles ($378 million).

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-...eaks-60818