Repairs uncover cocaine worth $434K in airplane's nose gear

SFGate.com ^ | 1/31/17 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say 31 pounds of cocaine that was accidentally discovered stashed in the nose of an American Airlines aircraft in Tulsa is worth around $434,000.

Tulsa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Justin Green says the plane arrived in Miami from Bogota, Colombia, on Sunday. It was flagged for maintenance and sent later that day to Tulsa International Airport, where American Airlines has a maintenance base.

[NormsRevenge]

31 pounds total. .. seven bricks of cocaine, worth at least $14,000 a pound.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ll bet there are some VERY nervous people working at American Airlines after THAT discovery!

[DoodleDawg]

...31 pounds of cocaine that was accidentally discovered stashed in the nose...

Am I the only one who sees the irony in that?

[posterchild]

Somehow ‘put this in your nose and it will help you fly’ got misinterpreted.

[Doogle]

..somebody’s gonna die

[oh8eleven]

If they can get away with stashing drugs, how long before someone stashes a bomb?

[Hieronymus]

Flying high.

[SkyDancer]

Waiting for the airplane jokes on this. "Where else would you put it but up in the nose?"

[mad_as_he$$]

No, you are not. I got a good chuckle out of it.

[NormsRevenge]

Now you know why some planes smile or used to..

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

They didn’t find the other 10 bricks...I’ll never tell. /h

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Now who could have been waiting to collect that stuff later in the day? How does he explain the plane NOT being where it was supposed to be?
Movie plots have been filmed over circumstances like this.
Lots of dead people at the end.

[bgill]

Whomever doesn’t show up for work today is who the feds need to look for. He’ll either be on the run or six feet under.

[scripter]

Am I the only one who sees the irony in that?

Nope. I cracked a smile when I read it.

[Red Badger]

Nope!....................

[Red Badger]

[Tammy8]

Very good question. People familiar with airport operations have claimed all the strict rules on passengers is not followed through on those behind the scenes doing aircraft cleaning and maintenance, baggage, ETC. Scary isn’t it?

[CrazyIvan]

“cocaine that was accidentally discovered stashed in the nose”

Officials became suspicious when the 737 was clocked at mach 3 on radar.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Somebody is in big trouble. Not trouble with the law but trouble with the drug smugglers. They don’t take kindly to losing drug shipments in this manner.

Heck whoever bungled things to allow this discovery might be happy to be in police custody, rather than face “justice” from the drug lords. Just saying........

[orlop9]

stashing it in the tail would be...ew.