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Explosives lost in airport gaffe
By Allan Little
BBC News, Paris
The plastic explosives could be anywhere in the world, police say
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.
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.
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.
PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES
Resembles putty and can be moulded by hand
Best known is Semtex, designed in Czechoslovakia
Made for landmine clearance and industrial work
Was undetectable by dogs and airport security devices
Became popular with international terrorists
It could be on an internal flight in France, or be travelling as far away as the US, Japan and Brazil.
Police insist the package of explosives is no more harmful than a chocolate bar - it has no detonator and does not react to movement, shock or even fire.
But they do concede that somewhere in the world, one of the thousands of passengers who passed through the airport will get a nasty surprise when they open their luggage.
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French police misplace explosives on jet
PARIS (AP) — Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York.
French police said the explosives were harmless and there was no chance of their going off, since no detonators were connected to them.
More than 300 passengers were evacuated and their luggage searched when their Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle arrived in Los Angeles late Friday the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said
Two Air France and one American Airlines flight to Paris were also searched in New York City, TSA spokesman Norm Brewer said. No explosives were found on any of the flights.
French police at Charles de Gaulle deliberately placed up to five ounces of plastic explosives into a passenger's luggage Friday evening, police spokesman Pierre Bouquin said.
But a "momentary lack of surveillance" led to the bag being lost on a conveyor belt carrying luggage from check-in to planes, he said.
Authorities immediately alerted the relevant airlines that one of between 80 and 90 planes that left the French capital from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday could be carrying the explosives, Bouquin said.
Four of the flights were en route to the United States, while others were headed to places like Japan and Brazil, Bouquin said. Some were domestic French flights. The flight searched in Los Angeles was delayed two to three hours before continuing on its next leg to Tahiti in the South Pacific.
"These dogs must be trained in the most realistic situation possible ... to be the most effective," Bouquin said.
"Indeed, it's possible that someone will have a surprise when he opens his bag."
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