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Explosives on plane to Ireland![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Police arrested Slovak national, Stefan Gonda, on Tuesday after he had unwittingly brought plastic explosives into Ireland three days earlier on a plane. He was later released without charge . The pilot of the Danube Wings plane had been informed before take off from Poprad-Tatry airport in eastern Slovakia that the explosive material was on board , but decided to carry on with the plane’s scheduled flight . The Slovakian ministry of the interior said that a telex was sent by the Poprad-Tatry airport authorities to Dublin airport while the flight was still in the air to Dublin , although Dublin Airport Authority said the first it knew of any plastic explosives entering Dublin was when the Slovakians rang them on Tuesday morning. The DAA immediately rang gardaí and the force put a bomb search and disposal operation in place.A spokesman for Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said it "beggared belief" that the man had been allowed to board the flight . |
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