Posted on 03/09/2023 3:09:07 PM PST by BenLurkin
Around 10 heavily armed robbers were able to skirt security measures to reach the runway at the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, where a Latam airlines aircraft had $32.5 million in cash that was being transferred to an armored truck, Interior Subsecretary Manuel Monsalve said.
There was a shootout between the would-be robbers and security officials that killed an employee of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, or DGAC, as well as an alleged assailant.
The other robbers fled. Two burned vehicles were later found nearby.
Video posted on social media appeared to show bullet holes in a Delta plane that was parked next to the Latam aircraft that was targeted.
The attempted robbery "will undoubtedly lead us to revise processes, protocols that must be improved..."
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This was not the first time the airport in Chile’s capital was targeted. In 2020, thieves stole some $15 million from a warehouse in the airport, six years after a similar $10 million heist.
History’s Greatest Heists with Pierce Brosnan
https://www.history.com/shows/historys-greatest-heists-with-pierce-brosnan
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RN1qAjadaVE
(Cell phone lady must have never heard of stray bullets)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r_XTCuy3-Bk
Where are the goodfellows.
The most interesting heists on that show was when the mob went after the bank in CA which had Hoffa’s $3 million pay off to Nixon.
Puts a new light on Hoffa’s disappearance.
INSIDE JOB!
Personally, I think I would go for a smaller target than a 32 million dollar sum that is surely to be heavily secured. The chances for success in such a heist goes down relatively as the amount that is targeted goes up.
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