Airline: Suspicious luggage contained no explosives

Kristina Reid

11-19-10

1:36 pm



The suspicious piece of luggage that would have been loaded onto a plane at Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia contained no explosives. A women form the Airline confirmed on Thursday that there were in fact no explosives. Air Berlin has also confirmed that there were no explosives found in the laptop case found in Namibia either. The spokeswoman also stated the luggage was found Wednesday and was never transferred to the plane and was not labeled so there was no way of finding out whom it belonged to or where it was intended to go. However the laptop case that was also found Wednesday morning did contain a functioning electronic clock with some attached wiring. The clock and wiring looked as if it could have been made for a bomb, but officials still maintain that there were not actual explosive materials inside the case. After it was verified that the bag did not contain any explosives the passengers on board flight 7377 to Munich were asked to get off and identify their luggage and were subjected to additional security checks. None of the passengers claimed the laptop bag and the flight departed Headed for Munich six hours behind schedule. Since the laptop case would have been loaded onto the plane headed for Munich on Wednesday Germany also raised it’s threat level. Officials in Germany told CNN that the threat level was raised due to the fact that evidence of an attack planned for later this month had surfaced. The warning was also linked to recent threats to the country from Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

This article was very informative I’m glad that there were no actual explosive found in any of the luggage. I think it’s very odd that there was a clock and some wiring found it seems like to me that I t might have been intended for someone to pick up the luggage once it was in Germany and then use the materials to make a bomb. I think Germany did the right thing by raising the threat level because this very well could have caused a huge amount of damage. I also think the airlines did a good job in performing security checks and finding out about the luggage. Even though no explosives were found it never hurts to take extra precautions to insure the safety of the public.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/germany.suspicious.luggage/index.html?npt=NP1