A test explosion on a Boeing 747 suggests that a US Christmas Day flight would have landed safely even if a bomb on board was detonated successfully, according to a BBC report last week.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, has been charged with trying to blow up Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb sewn into his underwear on a Christmas Day flight.
As per the the controlled experiment carried out for the BBC Two documentary ‘How safe are our Skies? Detroit Flight 253 – the test plane’s fuselage did not break in the controlled blast. The experiment used the same amount of explosive allegedly carried by Abdulmutallab.
The experiment was carried out by UN explosives expert Dr John Wyatt and analysed by air accident investigator Captain J Joseph. However the experts said it showed the suspected bomber and the passenger next to him would have been killed.
Abdulmutallab has denied attempting to murder 289 people.
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