The United States Air Force used its largest aircraft to move 50 tons of seized narcotics from a military storage facility in California to be destroyed.
Operation Burnout, a joint mission by the Air Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is the “largest recorded aerial transport of hazardous narcotics for destruction,” according to an Air Force press release on Jul. 7.
A C-5M Super Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the Air Force inventory, which can load cargo over 280,000 pounds (140 tons), was used from May 18 to May 20 to transport the $5 billion worth of illegal drugs, which were split into 23 pallets, from an air base in Riverside County to another base in Ohio….