What interesting cargo have YOU turned away?
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I concur. If you haven't smelt Durian, you haven't lived. That stuff wreaks. It's the national fruit of Malaysia from memory. It also caused the grounding of a departing Virgin aircraft a couple of years back when the passenger tried to hide the smell with a white powder.
In the home country of this national fruit, it's actually illegal to take it aboard public transport because it smells so bad. It's actually supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
In the home country of this national fruit, it's actually illegal to take it aboard public transport because it smells so bad. It's actually supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
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Had the lockers stuffed with bags of Cape Barren Geese that had been shot at the annual shoot. Had to knock some back cos of the ole "sauce" leakage problem!
A 1.5m croc rolled up in a Doona
700kg of frozen Turkey meat in a Chieftain- "Can we just put it in tubs with Dry ice?"
- from Cessnock to PERTH!
2 Blokes, Mr Smith and Mr Jones, for a 4-day charter:
"Just take us about 4 hours away from Perth, we will drive from there. Wait in the motel until we call you. Be ready to go."
...again, a Chieftain from Bankstown (no, we don't want to go from Sydney) 12 hours to ------- . And they paid the $15,000 in cash.
700kg of frozen Turkey meat in a Chieftain- "Can we just put it in tubs with Dry ice?"
- from Cessnock to PERTH!2 Blokes, Mr Smith and Mr Jones, for a 4-day charter:
"Just take us about 4 hours away from Perth, we will drive from there. Wait in the motel until we call you. Be ready to go."
...again, a Chieftain from Bankstown (no, we don't want to go from Sydney) 12 hours to ------- . And they paid the $15,000 in cash.
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Ouzo anyone ??
In a previous life flying food aid in Africa we had a particular hole of a destination that was always hot with a really short 'runway' and when it rained turned to a quicksand type of mud that would ground the aircraft for about 3 days. This hell hole always produced a late item or two of cargo in hessian sacks (unmanifested of course) when we wanted to take off and the thunderstorms were almost upon us. They clinked a lot and when I asked what was in there after take off (this being my first trip to paradise of course) I was informed it was Ouzo, lots of it.
I thought about this on the 2 1/2 hour leg home and bailed the captain up about it later in the evening. I did not mind carrying the cargo at all, Ouzo was the only drink you could get in this part of the world if you were lucky but I did think it posed a hell of a fire risk in the cabin even though we were a freighter operation.
Eventually since we could not really say no to the carriage of the stuff we threatened to offload it all each and every time unless the crew were given two bottles every time a run was made.
The ouzo had the last laugh though, the very next time we carried the stuff we almost got done by a rather large electrical storm and required the entire 2 bottles over the following two nights to calm the nerves and get us back into a flying state whilst the engineers checked the aircraft thoroughly for damage from the awful flight...
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I thought about this on the 2 1/2 hour leg home and bailed the captain up about it later in the evening. I did not mind carrying the cargo at all, Ouzo was the only drink you could get in this part of the world if you were lucky but I did think it posed a hell of a fire risk in the cabin even though we were a freighter operation.
Eventually since we could not really say no to the carriage of the stuff we threatened to offload it all each and every time unless the crew were given two bottles every time a run was made.
The ouzo had the last laugh though, the very next time we carried the stuff we almost got done by a rather large electrical storm and required the entire 2 bottles over the following two nights to calm the nerves and get us back into a flying state whilst the engineers checked the aircraft thoroughly for damage from the awful flight...
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Was tasked one night to fly a consignment of frozen fish (salmon I think it was ) out to Fiji from ML. Talk about having to gut the plane, put plastic down everywhere & keep the cabin not above 4 deg's C !!!. That meant we too had to be exposed to that lovely temp !!! & for around 4 hrs !!!
.............talk about yr 'cold soak' ! Try flying with 2 pairs of socks, blankets over you as tho you where oldies in a retirement home !
On the return journey (M/T obviously) had the cabin roasting....ahhhhh toasty !
Had the Soggies one night also, talk about hut hut hut hut !, can almost classify them as breathing dangerous cargo ! Great bunch of chaps tho, dangerously fit they where & obliging to show me there nasty weapons for 'breaches' !
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.............talk about yr 'cold soak' ! Try flying with 2 pairs of socks, blankets over you as tho you where oldies in a retirement home !On the return journey (M/T obviously) had the cabin roasting....ahhhhh toasty !
Had the Soggies one night also, talk about hut hut hut hut !, can almost classify them as breathing dangerous cargo ! Great bunch of chaps tho, dangerously fit they where & obliging to show me there nasty weapons for 'breaches' !
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hmmm ok, let's see...
- Dead bodies, several, once a similar experience to a previous poster,
- Paua (Abalone to the uninitiated) legally caught, in tubs -sort of a slurpy, sucky sound behind me all the way. Was going to souvenir one for dinner, grabbed a beaut at the top of the tub & all his mates wanted to come too...
- Crayfish, frozen tails in bags, fresh in bags, shorties in a secret spot ... mmmm freshly cooked legs for breakfast, sitting on the wing watching the boys load the floatie. Chhhhoooooiiiiiiicccce
- Bread delivery (also in the floatie) to a boat at sea
- Salmon tubs (boring) night run
- one bloke who wanted to take a cooked pig... didn't
- another bloke wanted to take enough fresh meat to feed the whole whanau for a month... didn't
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I started my flying career doing some runs on the south coast carting Abalone.
Thing to watch is the fisherman will show you a docket that states the weight...... Of the Abalone only........now each tub was around 25KG of abalone.....It said so on the docket. but they neglect to weigh the 25KG of water the tubs hold as well. I made some pretty ordinary landings and they generally required tons of power to keep them rolling. a few scary take offs and gear retractions way out at sea, as I was to scared to turn the aircraft after take off with the stall warning blaring. took simple me three flights to work out why the plane flew like a bucket and rectified it next flight by only loading half the tubs.
Thing to watch is the fisherman will show you a docket that states the weight...... Of the Abalone only........now each tub was around 25KG of abalone.....It said so on the docket. but they neglect to weigh the 25KG of water the tubs hold as well. I made some pretty ordinary landings and they generally required tons of power to keep them rolling. a few scary take offs and gear retractions way out at sea, as I was to scared to turn the aircraft after take off with the stall warning blaring. took simple me three flights to work out why the plane flew like a bucket and rectified it next flight by only loading half the tubs.
