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Two flights from two different airlines reportedly collided on the tarmac at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Tuesday. In this photo, planes sit on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on June 5, 2017 in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has descended into an investigation after thieves eloped with cash worth $300,000 from JFK Airport. More than $300,000 that vanished was part of the aforesaid cash shipment set to be loaded into a Delta flight.

The robbers swindled a shipment from an armored car en route Florida but it could not be understood when the cash was stolen, New York Post reported.

Law enforcement officials have joined hands with Port authority police to look into the matter while FBI is running an investigation on what happened to the missing money. Two law enforcement officials said that it was unclear whether the cash was stolen while the shipment was being loaded at the airport or prior to its arrival. The large shipments that come on and off domestic flights are usually escorted and closely monitored by police, they said.

Port Authority spokesman Scott Ladd hinted at the ongoing investigation but abstained from providing further information.

Time and again, JFK had been a target by mafia outfits and their supporters. In 1978 Lufthansa heist, a notable one among them, mob associates ransacked more than $5 million.

In the Lufthansa heist which happened on December 11, 1978, $5.8 million in cash and jewels were ripped off from the air cargo building of the German airline Lufthansa at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It was deemed the biggest cash theft then in the United States. Only one was reprimanded ever in what was described as ‘organized crime’ by the police. The money that was stolen could not be recovered too. The convicted person later came to be known as a cargo agent in Lufthansa named Louis Werner.

The law-enforcement source is tightening security in JFK to avert such heists in the future. They said it’s now “hard times” for robbers targeting JFK because of the scanty takeaway.

The source said while speaking to New York Post, “It’s $300,000. That would’ve been chump change for the mob.”

There are no suspects held so far and what happened to the missing money is still a mystery.

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