Cathay Pacific has been having some pretty rough luck recently. After contaminated water was found last month in their airplanes, they reportedly lost last Friday night a bag containing NZD1 million (4,080,500 yuan) at the Hong Kong International airport.
The missing bag, along with 12 others, were carrying cash valuing NZD10 million (40,805,000 yuan) when it was flown from New Zealand through a Cathay Pacific airplane.
Upon arrival at the airport at 9:10 p.m., the cash bags, labelled with”G4S International”, were being delivered to the Bank of China with a 2 x 1.5 x 1.5-meter luggage box, through the cargo transfer service provided by Cathay’s subsidiary, Hong Kong Airport Services.
Surveillance footage shows that the three bags fell out from the trailer, which was not properly fastened, while it was making a turn at a corner.
During the transfer, there was only a driver on board without a security guard.
Only 10 minutes later when the cargo arrived at the station, the driver realized the bags were missing.
Although two of the three missing bags were later found on the tarmac, the third one is still missing.
Police could not recover the bag despite an overnight search. The case is now listed as theft and is undergoing investigation.
Lawmaker with Federation of Trade Unions, Wong Kwok-kin, said that staff members should be deployed to monitor the transportation process of decidedly precious cargo.
By Joyce Ng
[Images via Oriental Daily]
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
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Why on Earth would you transport cash money this way? Especially into China.
Have you checked Lost & Found?
My thoughts exactly.
another lame comment. YOU SUCK!
dumb
those who hide behind anonymous ID's shall STFU and die
I found it. 'Finders keepers; Losers weepers' C u in the Caribbean!
errrrrr…. they know there's such a thing called “wire transfer” right?
Cash money hoes, big pimping.
Very average writing skills on the part of the writer.
Very happy worker who has that bag.
Seriously. You follow the guy around like a psychotic ex-girlfriend. For every post he makes, you post three or four comments of primary school level using different names thinking it's clever.
There are more worthwhile things to do with your time.
You've gone from irritating to bat-crap insanely annoying. Get help!
… somehow I get the feeling I'm going to be added to your stalking list now. It's okay, I've never had a stalker before.
Investigate whichever employee called in sick the next day and hasn't been heard from since.
Please go away
This is the internet. Lame comments are what its about. Complaining about it will get you nowhere.
Because they are not white.
Back in my day you had to be funny to navigate the internets
You are a rude person
Perhaps Someone staged the event; easy enough to blame it on the Chinese since people would believe money would fall off the truck
You honor needs to have a good ass kicking
How many Dongguan hookers can I buy with that money?
You know there is cash in the bank for exchange, which need to be delivered.
I won't even put my camera into checked baggage, can't see why anyone would put a million bucks there.
Stupid dickhead loser esl teacher
Well, in all fairness, pretty sure your honor did this exact same thing to poor Fred Fong. Now he's having to go through it himself. Serves him right.
Yeah, seems to me title should really read:
Cathay Pacific airline “loses” bag containing NZD1 million at airport
Probably insurance scam. Fill the bag with fake monopoly and then file a claim with G4S for real money.
Because usually physical money is needed for currency exchange in banks and duh currency exchange places like those in airports? It's not like there are armored money transporting planes flying around the world or like China can print foreign currency bank notes. It's not the problem of transporting the bank notes, it's the level of security the airline used for it's transportation.
You mean if you had no spare cash you can't even afford hookers? Just shows how sexually frustrated you are in reality.
So many weirdos here commenting or fantasizing about lost money that they will never get to see.
That was supposed to be an insult, right? Not sure, because it made no sense.
That seems like a bit of a stretch. Possible, but doubtful. The question is (which wasn't in the article); is the money insured?
Wasn't around for that. If I had seen something like that, I probably would have just called him out on it; not stalked the guy.
your point being?
do it.
I am defending myself.
Yes Katie
People called him out on it and also his frequent name changes. While he doesn't change his name anymore, he continued his harassment of TFF while expressing shock when was being harassed himself. A true hypocrite if there ever was one.
obviously an asian guy trying to trash white men. a white guy would never use “white guy” as a avatar. Good try though.
G4S International. Why the fuck does anyone continue to use them. Their entire record from prison security to the London Olympics is just one long chain of security error after security error.
Twist is They are the same person….
I will track you down and introduce you to my fist
i shall be waiting with anticip….bandaid
I fail to how the airline has lost it, it did it's part shipping 4 innocuous bags from A to B. Then some baggage handler loses it, seems that the HKIA baggae handlers are at fault!