![]() ![]() ![]() Dublin airport officially denied this, but passengers said that they were waiting for the luggage an unusually long time. Poprad-Tatry Airport flight control operators sent a message to Dublin Airport and informed them about the problem. The pilot evaluated the situation as not dangerous and decided to continue his flight. The police officer on duty, after realising his mistake, informed the Poprad-Tatry Airport flight controllers and in turn the pilot of the plane. The baggage arrived at Dublin airport where, as it was arriving and not departing, it was not checked. Baggage with the sample accidentally stuck to it was allowed to be loaded on an aircraft and flown to Dublin, departing on a Danube Wings flight at 11:00. The sniffer dog located both samples, but as the officer on duty had been allegedly called off to another plane, he forgot to remove one of the samples. He was flying back to Dublin after spending Christmas in the Slovak Republic. One of these was placed next to the baggage of a man described as a 49-year-old electrician, originally from the Slovak Republic but who had moved to Dublin, where he had been employed for three years. In an attempt to examine their airport security, Slovak government authorities planted two different illegal items (a small sample of real explosive and a scent sample) between random pieces of baggage at Poprad-Tatry Airport on the morning of Saturday, 2 January 2010. Slovak Republic hidden explosives incident The Slovak government apologised to Irish authorities on 6 January, and promised an investigation.Īt 96 grammes, the amount of explosive was reportedly enough to manufacture two hand grenades (although it was harmless in its transported form, having no detonator) and exceeded that used in the attempted bombing of a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Michigan, days earlier. Irish authorities however said they were not made aware of the situation until 5 January. The Slovak authorities said that the pilot was aware of the mistake and had cleared the flight, and they had told Irish authorities and the passenger the same day. ![]() The passenger was arrested but released without charge. On 5 January, the area surrounding his apartment was sealed off and evacuated, while Army bomb disposal experts recovered the sample. With security checks not generally performed for arrivals, the passenger arrived without incident and took the bag to his home in central Dublin. A Slovak security officer apparently then failed to remove it, and the bag was loaded onto a flight to Dublin. The test material was detected by the dogs. The explosive had been placed in a departing passenger's luggage in Poprad-Tatry Airport as part of a sniffer dog effectiveness test for checked in luggage. The Slovak Police training explosives incident involved a passenger on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230, a flight from Poprad-Tatry Airport, Slovak Republic, to Dublin Airport, Ireland, on 2 January 2010, that, three days later, caused an international incident due to the mistaken carriage of a sample of plastic explosive on the aircraft. Tibor Mako, chief of border police department of Slovakia. That police officer made this fatal mistake, that he forgot to remove the sample and did not inform his superior about his mistake, but the sample was completely harmless.
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