Mail Bomb Was Timed To Detonate Over Canada
Posted November 10, 2010 4:43 pm.
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A mail bomb that was intercepted in England last month would have been in Canadian airspace when authorities say it was timed to detonate.
Data from Houston-based Flightaware show that UPS Flight 232 from the East Midlands to Philadelphia was about 257 kilometres northwest of Quebec City at 5:30 a.m.
That’s when British police say the bomb was set to blow up. The bomb had been pulled off the flight in England.
British officials said the bomb could have detonated over the U.S., but the Oct. 29 flight didn’t enter U.S. airspace until about 6 a.m.
Flight 232 makes daily flights but not always along the same route.
Had the plane taken its alternate route, straight across the Atlantic, it likely would have been over the U.S. when it blew up.
