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18 Human Heads Found At ORD From FCO

YYZAMS From Canada, joined Feb 2011, 169 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 11592 times:

18 Human Heads found at ORD from FCO they were embalmed.

What flight would this have been?

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...customs-seizes-18-heads-at-airport

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PHX787 From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4981 posts, RR: 14
Reply 1, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 11550 times:

I heard it was AZ but that was just an airline being tossed around on FOX.

Either way I read it was due for medical research......wasn't this declared previously?

頑張ろう日本!

AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18883 posts, RR: 64
Reply 2, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 11491 times:

Quoting PHX787 (Reply 1):
I heard it was AZ but that was just an airline being tossed around on FOX.

The linked article says the shipment came in on Lufthansa.

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wn676 From Bosnia and Herzegovina, joined Jun 2005, 847 posts, RR: 4
Reply 3, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 10969 times:

I think this DHS spokesperson said it best:

Quote:

"Everybody here is 'Oh my gosh, you got a box of heads' and everybody thinks that it's unheard of,' Bell said. 'It is a potentially legitimate medical shipment. We've seen it at various ports in the nation."

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/17-human-heads-found-at-ohare/

We see human specimen shipments all the time. I'm sure a few of them have been heads. I just never bother to look at the paperwork to spare myself the thought.

Tiny, unreadable text leaves ample room for interpretation

PHX787 From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4981 posts, RR: 14
Reply 4, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 10937 times:

Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 2):

Quoting PHX787 (Reply 1):
I heard it was AZ but that was just an airline being tossed around on FOX.

The linked article says the shipment came in on Lufthansa.

Wait......LH from FCO to ORD.....was this Lufthansa Cargo?

頑張ろう日本!

AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18883 posts, RR: 64
Reply 5, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 10916 times:

Quoting PHX787 (Reply 4):
was this Lufthansa Cargo?

All of the answers to the questions you've asked in this thread so far are provided in full in the article linked in the opening post.

International Homo of Mystery

zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4724 posts, RR: 13
Reply 6, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 10813 times:

At least with us bags fly free! But we don't do ORD

So, what's a bunch of heads amongst friends? I'm waiting for that tabloid that makes the National Enquirer look like Kiplinger's or one of those other sleepy time high brow money mags. You know the Tabloid that's in black and white that features covers of road kill that were once "ET's," saying those heads were property of some politician foreign or domestic trying to bump up their vote totals claiming his campaign got head to vote.
I know I'm a sick puppy.

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flightsimer From United States of America, joined Aug 2009, 411 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 10724 times:

I guess nobody gave the people at ORD a Heads Up on what was coming...

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aznmadsci From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 3542 posts, RR: 5
Reply 8, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 10647 times:

Maybe heads are rolling at the rumors that EK isn't interested in serving ORD anymore.

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flightsimer From United States of America, joined Aug 2009, 411 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 10540 times:

Quoting aznmadsci (Reply 8):

thats just sick... the use of smilies so appropreiately... lol

Most people wwouldn't be so cool headed about having to go through the xray scanner at the airport...

[Edited 2013-01-15 22:38:06]

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PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 7771 posts, RR: 26
Reply 10, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 10411 times:

Quoting PHX787 (Reply 4):
Wait......LH from FCO to ORD.....was this Lufthansa Cargo?

why not, via FRA or MUC. Freight is hubbed like passengers and sometimes the freight consists of passenger parts.

The airline has nothing to do with that anyhow. As long as the export documentation is alright and the contents are declared as "said to contain medical specimen" (for instance, it is regular cargo.

.

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zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4724 posts, RR: 13
Reply 11, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 10179 times:

Quoting flightsimer (Reply 9):

Those heads hope they can just roll right on through an X Ray and not one those creepy invasive cancer giving full body scanners. The heads with the pea brain of a Jessica Simpson, the sociopathic egotisticalness of the Donald or just no talent crossedwires making them a Nikki Minaj would be quite pissed at having these things brought to the attention of TSA voyer department!.

Time to be equitable and give head (s) to MDW!

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TheRedBaron From Mexico, joined Mar 2005, 1699 posts, RR: 4
Reply 12, posted (4 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 2243 times:

If they do a Headcount.....will they be classified as stowaways?

just wondering
TRB

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CF-CPI From Canada, joined Nov 2000, 849 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (4 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 2012 times:

Italian film director Dario Argento must have been using them for props.

peterinlisbon From Portugal, joined Jan 2006, 229 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (4 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1771 times:

I think they were probably sent to test the aircraft's new "heads-up display" system. Anyway, at least they found them - it's not good to lose your head, but to lose 18 of them is even worse.

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