The ink cartridge bomb discovered in a package in Britain last month was timed to explode as the plane flew over North America potentially killing hundreds of people on the ground.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
The device, hidden in a desktop printer, used a disassembled mobile phone as a timer which was set for 10.30am.
“If the device had not been removed from the aircraft the activation could have occurred over the eastern seaboard of the US,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
It was intercepted at East Midlands airport after an intelligence tip off and removed from the UPS cargo plane.
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