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Police "forgot" bomb on plane during training excerise
Transit police trainees forgot 'bomb' on Air Canada plane at YVR
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METRO VANCOUVER - Transit police using an explosive while training bomb-sniffing dogs at Vancouver International Airport left the bomb on a commercial plane and failed to report it for two days, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation under a Freedom of Information request.
On Jan. 14, 2011, a Transit Police dog handler noticed the device was missing from his training kit, according to the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority's internal documents.
It had last been seen two days before, on Jan. 12, while training onboard an Air Canada Boeing 767 at Vancouver International Airport.
The plane took off en route to Toronto and when it landed a thorough search of the plane turned up no bomb, which was inert without its blasting cap.
Investigators were never able to determine who had seen the bottle-like device and it was never found, and stated in their internal report on the matter they believed it had been thrown out in the garbage.
A crew member told investigators he found a similar-looking bottle while clearing the plane and left it on the seat for cleaning staff.
"Why on earth were Transit Police - responsible for SkyTrain lines - planting explosives on a commercial airplane as a dog training exercise?" said Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the taxpayers' federation, who also called into question why it took two days for the missing bomb to be reported.
Transport Canada, airport security and the RCMP were also involved in the investigation.
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