That's a lot of excess baggage

[perk]

Three Venezuelan soldiers arrested over 1.3-tonne cocaine haul on Air France flight - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[harvyk]

Gee 1.3 tonnes of cocaine, what where the smugglers thinking? From a pure risk management point of view the odds of that getting through without someone raising an eye was pretty slim...

 

[samh004]

Surely using multiple planes would have helped too.

 

[RooFlyer]

Gee 1.3 tonnes of cocaine, what where the smugglers thinking? From a pure risk management point of view the odds of that getting through without someone raising an eye was pretty slim...

You are right; but perhaps the fact that it was Venezuela and Air France may have given them hope that the odds had improved!

 

[erkpod]

Can't wait to see this on Border Security!

 

[Must...Fly!]

Gee 1.3 tonnes of cocaine, what where the smugglers thinking? From a pure risk management point of view the odds of that getting through without someone raising an eye was pretty slim...

On the other hand, the more planes it is in, the higher the chance of someone coming across it...