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French lose explosives *they* put on a plane

December 6, 2004 1:16:08 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
From BBC News, Linky here: Explosives lost in airport gaffe
By Allan Little
BBC News, Paris

Plastic explosives were mistakenly loaded onto a plane at a Paris airport after security officials lost track of it during an exercise, police say.
Around 150 grams (about five ounces) of explosive were slipped into the bag of a passenger during sniffer dog training at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
The bag ended up on one of 90 flights leaving at the time, and police are now trying to track it down.
They stress the explosive is "no more dangerous than a bar of chocolate".
But airlines, airports and police forces around the world have been alerted.
Nasty surprise
Someone though took their eye off the ball and the baggage handler unwittingly put the bag on a plane.
Police say they do not know which plane the bag ended up on; about 90 flights were leaving the airport at the time.
It was a routine exercise that went wrong. An embarrassment but not, French police insist, dangerous.
The package of explosive was put in a bag at the airport on Friday to see if police dogs could detect it.
It could be on an internal flight in France, or be travelling as far away as the US, Japan and Brazil.
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... more at linked article..

If this one wasn't so scary, it'd be funny. No, wait, it's still funny. Sad, but funny.

Great job there France, potentially providing materials to the terrorists by slipping them onto the plane as part of an exercise. Better hope those don't wind up in the wrong hands.
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Reply #1 December 7, 2004 4:15:12 AM
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It is fairly funny actually. Brings back memories of inspector Clouseau in the pink panther. Total incompetence. One sniffer dog actually found the explosives while another didn't, so they went and put them in another case instead to repeat the training.

The explosives themselves are totally harmless unless someone gets their hands on an initiator. Still a very dangerous thing to be loosing though. What would be really funny is if someone got arrested at a different airport for having explosives which the French police placed in their bag. Imagine trying to explain that tot US custom officials!

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