Aviation experts under the aegis of Aviation Round Table (ART) have said that the item recovered from a passenger at the boarding point of a Bellview aircraft about two weeks ago was not a bomb.
At a press briefing in Lagos, president of ART, Captain John Obakpolor, stressed that though the item could pass for an explosive, it would be misleading to refer to it as bomb.
According to him, the security officers on duty at the time the incident occurred should be blamed for not intercepting the object till they found their way to the boarding point, adding that such �explosives� could still be accommodated in a flight.
One Michael Dickson had been caught at the boarding point of an Abuja-bound Bellview aircraft with some cartridges said to have contained explosives.
�I tell you as a military man and an engineer too that what was recovered from that gentleman can never be a bomb. You don�t put a bomb in a canister. This is why I chuckled when I read the news,� he said.
The former Air Force officer, who also doubles as one of the aviation egg heads in the country, said he was sure the laboratory test conducted on the substance would have been released by now if they found that the canisters contained a bomb.
�When the report of that laboratory is out, it will reveal it all. I know there has been enough time to come out with whether it was a bomb or not, but I know when the finding is to the contrary, the matter will just die the normal natural death,� he noted.