white44

Did LTN/JER once with an Aztec full of them. Full overalls/windows open (well DV).

Itched and sneezed for days.Quill dust everywhere.

oliema17

my mum - she weighed a ton!

shittykitty

the 787. parts of it anyway

spanish no fly

Apart from dead-heading front end crew, 40 tonne of palm trees from FCO to............DXB for a golf course! Flown into FCO from either LAX/SFO by Alitalia 74 and tramshipped to our diesel8. Coals to Newcastle, anyone?

CR2

That reminds me of 60ft long palm trees from Maastricht (of all places) to Kuwait, for a hotel lobby IIRC.

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Rat Catcher

Carried a very pissed off tiger in a C-206 once, interesting sounds from the back! Glad the cage was strong

Lamb Shank

200 Kapuchin Monkeys...the smell was horrible!

L1011-500

A helicopter

rampman

a mountain lion and 60 rabbits to dubai

olandese_volante

At least the mountain lion had something to snack on

Nostone

I once took a cat in a Hunter from Thumrait to Masirah. Had to stay low level of course. No oxygen mask for cat.

TurningFinals

I was speaking not long ago to a dispatcher who used to work for a cargo company at LHR.

B744F came on stand and the loaders opened one of the hold doors, and low and behold there stands a tiger, which had managed to escape its cage.

Needless to say, they closed the door asap! After a few times of opening and closing the doors for a look, the tiger wandered over to its cage and lay down. I don't envy the poor guy who had to leg it in and close the cage!

ray cosmic

we had once from FRA a couple Dobermanns in the FWD hold of a 737. Much the same story as above, really..

C-N

Could be true, remember, those sh*ty stuff are holy for our hindu brothers. They could be building a swimming pool out of those in their palace.

Transporting radioactive materials and ammos from an EU country to Africa. pm me if you want the exact name of the country. Poor ops guys have difficulty obtaining the required overfly permits from enroute countries. All permits ended up with Diplomatic clearance.

G-ONADS

Doesn't compete with miscellaneous gorillas, giraffes, and killer wales but here is my $0.02.


President Mugabe from North Holt to Jersey and back (just had to make a deposit I guess.) in a BAC1-11
Lots of farting cadavers out of Dallas in a C402
Guns to Kazakhstan BAC 1-11
Boxes of Crabs and Crawfish from New Orleans regulars for us.
A diabetic prisoner Dallas to some prison hospital in Missouri, he had both legs amputated and was strapped into the back seat of a BE55 baron. On arrival and while waiting for the ground transportation to arrive we ordered pizza from the FBO and offered to share it with the guard. I asked if he wanted to stay by the aircraft and eat it there he replied "Naw lets go inside and eat, he a'int gonna run off"
An ironing board, and a few kids toys RAK to Heathrow, it's good to be the king.
A case of coke (cola) and a sack of potatoes from Dallas to Gunnison Co. I guess they don't sell it there.

Not exactly freight but.....
Katherine Zeta Jones LAS to VNY
Kiss
Jon Bon Jovi
Bruce Springstein & E Street Band
George Harrison
Jim Capoldi
Many pro ice skaters and NBA teams
Emerson Fittipaldi
Al Pacino

the list goes on

doubledolphins

Best bit of freight I ever had caried was a Merc. SLK, MAN to MBJ, allong with 328 pax. The loaders drove it into the forward hold off the scisors lift and then disconected the battery as if it was a wheel chair. (The fuel tank had about half a pint in it.) Of course the Jamaican loaders could not just drive it out at the other end because the car security system kicked in as soon as the battery was reconected. Not our problem as we were already in the beach bar, but the return crew were none too happy!

slowto280

DC-8 pax charter, middle of winter in Philly going down to the islands. Just prior to push back, my then girlfriend FA comes to the cockpit and says there is some strange thumping noise all the way in the back. Capt. wouldn't have it, but after several minutes talked him into checking. A loader had fallen asleep on some bags and the other guys had closed the door, not knowing he remained inside. Poor chap was in a panic obviously as his hands were bloodied from all the 'thumping'.

superspotter

Not strange just absolutely beautiful
A brand new Ferrari California, a mere £147000 worth from MXP to AUH, on it's way to a place called HOMEBUSH NSW


I did take several pics of the car but in my opinion this is the best bit by far

Helm737

A kilogram of pure cocaine "accompanied by police for controlled delivery" from TXL to FCO.

Someone had ordered it somewhere in Paraguay, from where it was flown into LEJ by DHL. It was found during a routine spot check and handed over to the federal police. As its market value was estimated EUR 250.000,-, the German Federal Police decided to send it down to Rome on a normal passenger flight accompanied by a police officer, who was ordered to hand it over to the Italian authorities... Yeah, bye bye

The icing was the quetsions to us whether or not we preferred to keep it in the flight deck during flight...

Woolsack

Around 25 million of them. Miami to Brasilia on behalf of the Brazilian government for free distribution during Carnival at Rio, Salvador & Sao Paulo. This was one of two shipments which originated at Hong Kong. B.744-F.