Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
Yes, those are gold bars scattered all across a Russian runway.
According to reports, a plane leaving the Yakutsk airport in Russia lost some very precious cargo.
How precious you might ask?
Well, according to these reports, the Nimbus Airlines AN-12 Cargo Plane attempted to take off with literally tons of gold, platinum, and diamonds on board.
The plane had problems with the take off and much of this precious cargo fell out and was scattered all over the runway.
Talk about a bad day!
It gets worse for the crew...
As the plane continued it's take off, more and more of these precious items continued to fall out of the plane.
As the plan continued to fly, it was reported that some gold bars were dropped as far as 26 kilometers from the Yakutsk airport.
For those of us that live in the US, that is roughly 16 miles away from the original take off!
Upon learning of what was going on, the crew eventually decided to land at a nearby airport in Magan, which was about 26 kilometers northwest of Yakutsk.
It was originally en route to Krasnoyarsk.
In total, roughly $368 million in gold and other precious metals fell out of the plane.
Someone is not going to be happy...
It was not made clear whether all of the dropped metals were recovered as of yet.
The cargo was owned by Chukota Mining and Geological Company. Which is 75% owned by Canadian Kinross Gold.
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