iPads Stolen from Russian Pilot

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The friendly skies weren’t so kind to a Russian pilot who had eight iPads nicked from his luggage somewhere between JFK and Moscow.

Oleg Korneev thought he wasn’t taking many chances with the precious cargo: he used two external locks and shrink wrapped his suitcase before boarding the plane.


Korneev arrived home in Moscow to find his suitcase stripped of the wrap and the locks — with the iPads he planned to sell at a mark-up gone missing.

Police in Moscow searched airport employees and the plane but came up with nothing. Korneev didn’t have the serial numbers for the stolen iPads and hadn’t connected the devices with Apple’s Find my iPhone app, which tracks the iPhone 4, iPad or 4th generation iPod Touch.

The pilot reported the theft to the Port Authority and a check an airport security manager was not able to turn up any hidden surveillance video that has proved helpful in solving the case.

The New York Post reported that an investigations unit for the Transportation Security Administration was also informed about the theft and a “check revealed that the pilot’s suitcase had been examined before his jet took off, which means the plastic wrapping was likely cut open here, rather than in Moscow,” a source said.

Source: New York Post

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