After Mishap, Police Change Explosives Drill
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French police ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers’ luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
The luggage that police used Friday for the exercise has not turned up. Three flights that arrived in Los Angeles and New York were searched, but the luggage in question was not found.
No passenger has contacted French authorities to report discovering a bag with nearly 5 ounces of explosives tucked into it. Police said there was no chance the explosives could go off since they were not connected to detonators.
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