Originally Posted by
sbrower
My suggestion - no cargo is valuable enough to explain this. Too many uncertainties with obtaining the plane/cargo even with a well-planned disappearance. If it was intentional, only people (some person on board) has this much value.
While not ruling out people, I disagree about the cargo. For instance there were articles a few years ago about routine shipments on flights from JFK that contained shipments from the NY Fed to the central bank of another country. They were in some cases upwards of 100 million in US bills. Gold or diamonds could get up to those numbers as well. Mangosteens, not so much.