Drugged monkeys and coke-filled suitcases — just some of the things found on planes
‘Welcome to Air Cocaine. We will be high in the sky today. Please enjoy your flight.’
New Delhi/Jakarta — Indonesia’s top airline executive is set to be fired for allegedly ordering a classic Harley-Davidson motorbike to be secretly shipped into the country on a new Airbus jet, the latest in a long line of smuggling incidents in the global aviation industry.
Anything from iPhones and iPads to gold and drugged monkeys have been smuggled on commercial aircraft in recent years. In the case of Indonesia, smuggling happens “often and under various means, and through many channels,” finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told reporters in Jakarta on Thursday, as it was announced that PT Garuda Indonesia’s CEO would be fired...
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