A wave of "air theft" began in Russia: money was stolen from hand luggage directly on planes. There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of such cases in recent months. And they all look alike, like a carbon copy. People fly on vacation, carry cash in their carry-on luggage, put the bag in the baggage locker - and when they leave, there is no money. The most resonant stories: In July, a pensioner flying from Yekaterinburg to Istanbul missed 4,200 euros. In September, another Russian woman flew to Vietnam via Almaty - $3,400 disappeared. Instead, the thief left a pile of Malawian banknotes (one kwacha - 4 kopecks). In October, dollars and euros of a couple worth 170 thousand rubles disappeared on a Moscow-Ho Chi Minh flight. The musician Dmitry Sudzilovsky also became a victim on the Moscow-Ankara flight. In the backpack were two envelopes: dollars and euros. He turned the backpack with the locks against the wall, but it didn't help. One envelope contained Nigerian Naira, the other contained an Uzbek sum. According to Sudzilowski, the envelopes could only be seen when the backpack was scanned at the airport. "I still don't understand at what stage the thief could have taken the money. Moreover, he should have unfolded the backpack, reached into the inner pocket, found two envelopes with different currencies and left notes from different countries in them," he told KP. Thefts mainly occur on night flights, when the passengers are sleeping, and on routes where Russians fly with cash. Changing bills is not a mockery, but a calculation: if a person is going to check, it is unlikely that he will take out a pack and count it. And if the loss is discovered after several days, it is almost impossible to find the culprit.

A wave of "air theft" began in Russia: money was stolen from hand luggage directly on planes. There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of such cases in recent months. And they all look alike, like a carbon copy. People fly on vacation, carry cash in their carry-on luggage, put the bag in the baggage locker - and when they leave, there is no money. The most resonant stories: In July, a pensioner flying from Yekaterinburg to Istanbul missed 4,200 euros. In September, another Russian woman flew to Vietnam via Almaty - $3,400 disappeared. Instead, the thief left a pile of Malawian banknotes (one kwacha - 4 kopecks). In October, dollars and euros of a couple worth 170 thousand rubles disappeared on a Moscow-Ho Chi Minh flight. The musician Dmitry Sudzilovsky also became a victim on the Moscow-Ankara flight. In the backpack were two envelopes: dollars and euros. He turned the backpack with the locks against the wall, but it didn't help. One envelope contained Nigerian Naira, the other contained an Uzbek sum. According to Sudzilowski, the envelopes could only be seen when the backpack was scanned at the airport. "I still don't understand at what stage the thief could have taken the money. Moreover, he should have unfolded the backpack, reached into the inner pocket, found two envelopes with different currencies and left notes from different countries in them," he told KP. Thefts mainly occur on night flights, when the passengers are sleeping, and on routes where Russians fly with cash. Changing bills is not a mockery, but a calculation: if a person is going to check, it is unlikely that he will take out a pack and count it. And if the loss is discovered after several days, it is almost impossible to find the culprit.