LONDON: A suspect package found on a US-bound cargo plane at a British airport, sparking an international security alert, was "viable and could have exploded", Home Secretary Theresa May said...
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October 30, 2010
LONDON: A suspect package found on a US-bound cargo plane at a British airport, sparking an international security alert, was "viable and could have exploded", Home Secretary Theresa May said Saturday.
"Our preliminary investigation is now complete. I can confirm that the device was viable and could have exploded," May told reporters following a meeting of the government's emergency committee, Cobra.
"The target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated the aircraft could have been brought down."