The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$ 5.875 million (equivalent to US$28.32 million in 2024) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed in the U.S. at the time.

Jan 20, 2023 · On December 11, 1978, six masked, armed men burst into the Lufthansa Airlines cargo terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport during a graveyard shift and robbed $5.8 million ...

Jan 25, 2025 · Lufthansa heist, theft on December 11, 1978, of some $5.8 million in cash and jewels from the air cargo building of the German airline Lufthansa at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City—at the time the biggest cash theft to have taken place in the United States.

Jun 9, 2024 · America's largest robbery ever committed to that point, the 1978 Lufthansa heist saw thieves take $5,875,000 in cash and jewels from New York's JFK Airport. Discover the real story behind what was the biggest cash robbery in U.S. history.

Dec 10, 2018 · The December 11, 1978 Lufthansa heist by the Lucchese crime family at New York's JFK airport, was the most infamous caper in U.S. history.

Dec 11, 2018 · How the 1978 Lufthansa Heist Led to a Trail of Dead Bodies. A crew of mafia‑affiliated hijackers, killers, loan sharks and thieves made off with $5.8 million in cash and jewels.

Dec 11, 2018 · Alleged Bonanno crime family captain Vincent Asaro walks with his lawyers outside of a Brooklyn court house after a jury found him not guilty in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa heist at JFK International Airport.

The robbers: Louis Werner, an insider who had worked for Lufthansa Airlines for years, needed money to pay off his gambling debts. He conceived of the crime and would be the only man ever ...

The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$5.875 million ...

The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World is a non-fiction book written by Daniel Simone in collaboration with Henry Hill. It was published by Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, on August 1, 2015. [1]