French Police Lose Explosives During Training Exercise in Airport
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[quote]French police put a block of explosives at Marseille Airport during training exercises…and forgot where they hid it, says a leaked report. The authorities have been searching for the perilous package for a week to no avail.
The explosives were lost somewhere in the cargo area in Marseille Provence Airport in the second-largest French city, reported French media.
The deadly substance was hidden during exercises in which the local gendarmes were training police dogs to find explosives. However, the sniffer dogs didn’t seem to be trained well enough to find the substances. Neither were the officers, who forgot where they put no less than 100 grams of C-4 military explosives.
“All searches to find the material have failed,” the police source said. It is yet unclear whether fully-trained police dogs had been used to help find the substances.
A criminal investigation has been launched to find out who is responsible for the incident, said local police, adding that the culprit could be subject to “administrative penalties and lawsuits.”
The preliminary inquiry said that “there was a negligent supervision” of the training exercise.
Investigators still believe that the explosives were not stolen, but lost somewhere in the airport. The police reassured the public that without a detonating device, the substance is harmless.
“It’s a stable product… Without firing [device], it’s not dangerous,” added the police.
C-4, or Composition C-4, is very stable and not sensitive to most physical shocks. C4 cannot be detonated by a gunshot or by dropping it on to a hard surface, and it doesn’t explode when set on fire. But it can detonate if there is a combination of extreme heat and a shockwave.[/quote]
[url]http://rt.com/news/169808-france-police-explosives-airport/[/url]
Wow, even their bombs run away.
[quote]Investigators still believe that the explosives were not stolen, but lost somewhere in the airport. The police reassured the public that without a detonating device, the substance is harmless.[/quote]
before you all freak out
Best scenario, the explosives were hidden in a very hard-to-reach spot, or they got moved by accident into such spot.
Worst scenario, the explosives were shipped by accident to God-knows-where
[QUOTE=DChapsfield;45373582]before you all freak out[/QUOTE]
Detonators can be rigged up quite easily with common supplies.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45373611]Detonators can be rigged up quite easily with common supplies.[/QUOTE]
c4 needs blasting caps, those are hard to get
[QUOTE=Sableye;45373711]c4 needs blasting caps, those are hard to get[/QUOTE]
...oooor you could grab the primer of a shotgun shell, and that primer can be set off with a simple BB gun fired by tugging on a string.
[QUOTE=T553412;45373599]Best scenario, the explosives were hidden in a very hard-to-reach spot, or they got moved by accident into such spot.
Worst scenario, the explosives were shipped by accident to God-knows-where[/QUOTE]
It's only 100 grams. I highly doubt they'd bother shipping that anywhere.
Taking a page out of the old TSA book I see
[QUOTE=TestECull;45373958]...oooor you could grab the primer of a shotgun shell, and that primer can be set off with a simple BB gun fired by tugging on a string.[/QUOTE]
Why does everyone like to act like stuff along these lines or building a home made gun or anything along the lines of 'MacGuyvering' is so easy that everyone could do it at a whim? The level of fine motor skills and dexterity required to pull off shit like that isn't something that everyone just naturally possesses; usually you have to be working with your hands for an incredibly long period of time to actually adequately do a lot of small, finicky DIY things. I'm entirely certain your average person (even if they know the process of how to) isn't going to manage pulling off building a detonator for a piece of inert C4.
[QUOTE=TestECull;45373958]...oooor you could grab the primer of a shotgun shell, and that primer can be set off with a simple BB gun fired by tugging on a string.[/QUOTE]
A 12 Gauge shotgun primer would not have enough force to detonate C4, it's really stable; you can shoot it and it won't explode, you might be able to get your hands on TNT blasting caps though, those might be able to blow it, but it's such a small amount of C4 anway.
Sacre Bleu!
[QUOTE=glitchvid;45374957]A 12 Gauge shotgun primer would not have enough force to detonate C4, it's really stable; you can shoot it and it won't explode, you might be able to get your hands on TNT blasting caps though, those might be able to blow it, but it's such a small amount of C4 anway.[/QUOTE]
Hell, you can set C4 on fire and it wont explode while burning (unless you really hit it with something at the same time, but even then its not guaranteed to gooff)
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;45376139]Hell, you can set C4 on fire and it wont explode while burning (unless you really hit it with something at the same time, but even then its not guaranteed to gooff)[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this; half the point of C4 is that it's shock insensitive.
Honestly Max needs to keep better track of his possessions, this is getting ridiculous.
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