[jdimov]

No one in their right mind would attempt to transport 25 tons of gold on a commercial passenger flight.

[pedalpete]

How do you transport 25 tons of gold across land and sea?

My guess is air freight is the safest method, does it matter if it goes on a DHL 777 or a Commercial 777? Either way, the plane could be hijacked.

But I suspect you'd have somebody with an insurance claim for $1 billion in gold, and an insurance company going bankrupt as a result.

[jdimov]

Yes, but Malaysia PM said there's only mangosteens in the cargo.

[pktgen]

Tomorrow's headline: no mangosteens in cargo.

[jdimov]

And then we'll have conspiracy theories about what happened to the mangosteens en-route.

[qq66]

You'd probably charter a cargo airliner with armed security. And send maybe less than 25 tons of gold per flight.

[gambiting]

Insurance companies have insurance as well. It's a long chain of interlinked companies.

[Nanzikambe]

It does happen, security by obscurity is actually quite prevalent outside of Infosec: if nobody knows it's there how can it be stolen?

Search for "Heathrow Runway Robberies", etc. There were a number of documentaries on the subject, IIRC there were several gangs that specialized in jacking crap off planes in airports. It's possible (however unlikely) that some graduated beyond the airport.