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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14 responses to “iPads Stolen from Russian Pilot”
Carry On Luggage.
Most likely those corrupt Kennedy Airport baggage handlers. The shrink-wrap was a beacon in the night for those lousy crooks. Security works hand in hand with the baggage handlers like spotters. Damn.
TSA did it
I had a laptop stolen out of my luggage by Jet Blue employees at JFK a few years ago.
JB couldn’t have cared less, and wouldn’t even take a report.
I hate to be one of THOSE guys who comments on something almost completely irrelevant but hey…I really like the wallpaper on that iPad :)
Security guy sees the ipads in the bag, using xray machine.
Security guy alerts his fellow baggage handlers.
Security guy alerts security manager to blank CCTV/move FOV to blank spot.
Baggage handler guys take the ipads.
And thats how it goes…
Source: Own work experience in a corrupt environment, sadly.
International Flight. TSA requires bags to be UNLOCKED for visual inspection. At least it has when my M-i-L has returned to her home country after visiting. If it was wrapped and locked, TSA at least would have gotten them open. After that, if they did not relock, anybody could have taken them in either JFK or Moscow.