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The Moscow Times: Russian plane loses gold bars worth $378 million after door breaks

By The Moscow Times.
The World Gold Council reports that in 2010, central banks globally shifted fro being net sellers of the metal to net buyers.
Photo by Julia Berezovska

A reported 200 bars of gold and other precious metals have scattered across an airport runway in Russia after a cargo plane door broke off upon takeoff.

Strong winds blew off the Nimbus Airline An-12 cargo plane door upon takeoff from Yakutsk Airport, airport officials told Interfax on March 15.

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