Jet Carried Millions, Picasso Art, Jewels
From Times Wire Reports
A treasure trove worth millions of dollars could well be sitting on the ocean floor, buried alongside the mangled wreckage of Swissair Flight 111, authorities said in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The valuables, including diamonds, jewels, millions of dollars in cash and the Picasso painting “The Painter,” worth an estimated $1.5 million, were on their way to Geneva when the jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 2, killing all 229 people aboard.
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