We have all been in the position at some point in our lives where we've majorly messed up at work. A lot of the time, this is during your first few weeks and ends up being something that is easily sorted out, but sometimes you can royally screw up and leave your more experienced colleagues rushing around trying to put out the fire you've made.

At the end of the day, things do blow over and we are all willing to give people a second chance, but that doesn't mean it isn't utterly embarrassing. Even when it's not really you who is to blame, it can feel like it's your fault all the same. Yet while you might have accidentally binned some important documents or a machine broke down on your watch and caused a huge delay, it has nothing on the amount of money lost in this incident.

A plane that was carrying various precious metals was taking off from the airport in Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's diamond-producing region, when something went disastrously wrong.

Due to damage to one of the door handles, the Nimbus Airlines AN-12 cargo planes went through some problems during takeoff, leading to it dropping tons of cargo out over not just the runway, but dozens of kilometers away.

If that didn't sound bad enough, it's worth noting that the plane was carrying 9.3 tons of gold, as well as platinum and diamonds. As the aircraft gained height the cargo spilled out of the back of the plane all over the runway, with some bars of gold dropping as far as 26 kilometers from the airport.

The plane was en route to Krasnoyarsk, with plans to travel further to Kupol mine. The trip was transporting goods owned by Chukota Mining and Geological, of which 75% belongs to the Canadian gold and silver mining company the Kinross Gold Corporation. The value of the cargo they were holding was estimated to be 21.6 billion roubles ($378 million).

The nearest point the plane could land once the problem was discovered was at the airport of Magan, which is 26 km north-west of Yakutsk, according to the Siberian Times. As soon as they were notified, police sealed off the runway and launched a vast search for any gold, platinum or diamonds lost.

Technical engineers who prepared the plane for takeoff have also been taken in for questioning to see why exactly the fault wasn't noticed.

In total it is believed that multiple tons of precious metal were dropped, only some of which was recovered. Tass news agency quoted Interior Ministry officials in their report, claiming that so far 172 gold bars (weighing 3.4 tons) have been found so far.

While this kind of incident is something you would expect to only see in the climax of a James Bond movie, in reality this has likely made a lot of rich businessmen extremely stressed out.

We have all been in the position at some point in our lives where we've majorly messed up at work. A lot of the time, this is during your first few weeks and ends up being something that is easily sorted out, but sometimes you can royally screw up and leave your more experienced colleagues rushing around trying to put out the fire you've made.

At the end of the day, things do blow over and we are all willing to give people a second chance, but that doesn't mean it isn't utterly embarrassing. Even when it's not really you who is to blame, it can feel like it's your fault all the same. Yet while you might have accidentally binned some important documents or a machine broke down on your watch and caused a huge delay, it has nothing on the amount of money lost in this incident.

A plane that was carrying various precious metals was taking off from the airport in Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's diamond-producing region, when something went disastrously wrong.

Due to damage to one of the door handles, the Nimbus Airlines AN-12 cargo planes went through some problems during takeoff, leading to it dropping tons of cargo out over not just the runway, but dozens of kilometers away.

If that didn't sound bad enough, it's worth noting that the plane was carrying 9.3 tons of gold, as well as platinum and diamonds. As the aircraft gained height the cargo spilled out of the back of the plane all over the runway, with some bars of gold dropping as far as 26 kilometers from the airport.

The plane was en route to Krasnoyarsk, with plans to travel further to Kupol mine. The trip was transporting goods owned by Chukota Mining and Geological, of which 75% belongs to the Canadian gold and silver mining company the Kinross Gold Corporation. The value of the cargo they were holding was estimated to be 21.6 billion roubles ($378 million).

The nearest point the plane could land once the problem was discovered was at the airport of Magan, which is 26 km north-west of Yakutsk, according to the Siberian Times. As soon as they were notified, police sealed off the runway and launched a vast search for any gold, platinum or diamonds lost.

Technical engineers who prepared the plane for takeoff have also been taken in for questioning to see why exactly the fault wasn't noticed.

In total it is believed that multiple tons of precious metal were dropped, only some of which was recovered. Tass news agency quoted Interior Ministry officials in their report, claiming that so far 172 gold bars (weighing 3.4 tons) have been found so far.

While this kind of incident is something you would expect to only see in the climax of a James Bond movie, in reality this has likely made a lot of rich businessmen extremely stressed out.