Your plane is running
out of fuel over the ocean.
To stay in the air
you have to jettison
some cargo.
Your choices are:
1) A wrapped bundle of cash totalling $10,000,000
2) Michelangelo’s David
3) An endangered rhino
4) Kim and Kanye.
The Question Is…. What Do You Throw Out of the Plane?
Ok, ok… I think I got this one. I’m going to assume I have access to a smart phone here (if not, I’ll just get one off of Kim or Kanye). First- if the cash is in a wrapped bundle, it’s probably waterproof, and it’s also likely to be sequential bills… I use the camera on the phone to take pictures of serial # on the cash package, and email it to the treasury department- I don’t know if the treasury department would count being booted out of a plane at altitude as being ‘lost or destroyed bills’ to be… Read more »
The money, because it is not irreplacable. But how much weight can that have, if it is not in coins? I don’t think throwing out a briefcase full of money will do the plane much good.
Don’t believe what you see in movies. Even if you had nothing but $100s (and there’s no reason to believe that’s true) $10,000,000 is still 1,000 stacks of bills, which is a lot heavier than you would think. I used to work in a store that dealt with a lot of cash and have held $250,000 in my hands. It’s not light.
5) Pilots who neglected to check the gas gauge before heading over open water.
6) Kenny Tarmac.