6 of THE STRANGEST... AIRCRAFT CHARTERS

no two jobs are the same in the world of aviation, as Air charter service (Acs) reveals its strangest cargo requests...

1 90 tonnes of ketchup – a restaurant chain transported the cargo across the us before hundreds of branches ran out. 2 world’s heaviest woman – the former heavyweight, eman ahmed, flew from egypt to Mumbai for life-saving surgery. 3 Dresses – 400 dresses and 72 pairs of shoes flown from Milan for paris fashion week. 4 wild lions – acs flew seven wild lions from South africa to rwanda to reintroduce them. 5 Sand – an antonov an-12 was required to fly 13 tonnes of sand from rome to cairo for a glassmaking company. 6 priceless art – priceless pablo picasso paintings were shipped from paris to Morocco.