A fake bomb carried on board a cargo aircraft from Britain to Istanbul, consisting of a wedding cake box with a timer, wires and a detonator, wasn’t discovered until the plane reached its destination.
The suspicious package went undetected after being delivered to carrier UPS in Camden, north London, a fortnight ago, according to ITN.
UPS is the same airline that carried a bomb disguised as a printer ink cartridge from Yemen to East Midlands airport last year.
According to the Metropolitan Police, a search was carried out at an address in north London after the latest incident and a 26-year-old man arrested. He was later bailed to return on a date in May.
A spokesman at the Department for Transport said they were aware of the incident and took it very seriously.
‘We have already begun an investigation which will look at all aspects of this incident, including UPS’s procedures,’ a Department for Transport spokesperson commented.
‘The UK has one of the toughest security regimes for air cargo in the world. All security measures are subject to continuous review.’
In a statement, UPS confirmed that ‘a suspicious package’ travelled in its network aboard an all-cargo aircraft from the UK to Turkey.
‘UPS is cooperating with the British Department for Transport’s investigation of the incident,’ the statement continued.
The bomb hoax is not believed to be linked to terrorism.
In the wake of the 2010 incident involving two bombs disguised as printers and sent to the US by Yemen-based al-Qaeda, cargo screening procedures across the world were supposed to have been tightened.
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