KOLKATA: A chartered flight took off from Kolkata airport for Almaty in Kazakhstan on Sunday morning, carrying in its belly 1,461 bins packed with enough explosives to explode a whole city.
Sources on the airport mentioned a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-204C freighter took off at 6.20pm on Sunday with 25 tonnes of nonelectric explosive detonators used for blasts in mining operations or tunnelling thru mountains. The plane then made the two,500km journey with the consignment that is classified underneath ‘magnificence I dangerous goods’.
An reputable of Indian Explosives Ltd, a subsidiary of Australian firm Orica that's the world’s largest provider of business explosives and blasting systems, mentioned the consignment was once the largest ever to be shipped from Kolkata and likewise among the largest from anyplace in India.
According to norms laid down via the United Nations, dangerous goods, like explosives, can't be transported in passenger aircraft. They have to be handled with extreme warning. The explosives have been packed into the particular thermally insulated, water-resistant and crush-proof bins introduced from Mumbai.
Customs clearance agent Jaideep Raha of Jetex Oceanair Pvt Ltd, which handled the consignment, mentioned the bins have been very carefully loaded in an operation that started on Saturday night time and carried on until late Sunday morning. “The aircraft arrived at 10.40pm on Saturday. Thereafter, the loading operation started. The area across the aircraft was once cordoned off. ‘No Smoking’ indicators have been put in to ensure that an opportunity accident did not occur,” recounted Raha, who could also be the regional chairman (east) of Air Cargo Agents’ Association of India.
While consignment in bins are generally bodily checked via Customs officers after they are handed thru X-ray scan, in this instance they have been most effective scanned since opening the bins may have broken the packaging.
There are nine classes of dangerous goods. While explosives fall underneath magnificence I, the others include acid, gas-based poisons, inflammable subject material, oxidising subject material, hazardous chemicals and bio-hazards like blood samples.
With the Australian govt saying the putting in place of a consulate place of business in Kolkata, mining companies from Down Under which might be found in Kolkata gets a fillip. “In the years forward, one can expect more such exports out of Kolkata airport,” mentioned an reputable.
Sources on the airport mentioned a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-204C freighter took off at 6.20pm on Sunday with 25 tonnes of nonelectric explosive detonators used for blasts in mining operations or tunnelling thru mountains. The plane then made the two,500km journey with the consignment that is classified underneath ‘magnificence I dangerous goods’.
An reputable of Indian Explosives Ltd, a subsidiary of Australian firm Orica that's the world’s largest provider of business explosives and blasting systems, mentioned the consignment was once the largest ever to be shipped from Kolkata and likewise among the largest from anyplace in India.
According to norms laid down via the United Nations, dangerous goods, like explosives, can't be transported in passenger aircraft. They have to be handled with extreme warning. The explosives have been packed into the particular thermally insulated, water-resistant and crush-proof bins introduced from Mumbai.
Customs clearance agent Jaideep Raha of Jetex Oceanair Pvt Ltd, which handled the consignment, mentioned the bins have been very carefully loaded in an operation that started on Saturday night time and carried on until late Sunday morning. “The aircraft arrived at 10.40pm on Saturday. Thereafter, the loading operation started. The area across the aircraft was once cordoned off. ‘No Smoking’ indicators have been put in to ensure that an opportunity accident did not occur,” recounted Raha, who could also be the regional chairman (east) of Air Cargo Agents’ Association of India.
While consignment in bins are generally bodily checked via Customs officers after they are handed thru X-ray scan, in this instance they have been most effective scanned since opening the bins may have broken the packaging.
There are nine classes of dangerous goods. While explosives fall underneath magnificence I, the others include acid, gas-based poisons, inflammable subject material, oxidising subject material, hazardous chemicals and bio-hazards like blood samples.
With the Australian govt saying the putting in place of a consulate place of business in Kolkata, mining companies from Down Under which might be found in Kolkata gets a fillip. “In the years forward, one can expect more such exports out of Kolkata airport,” mentioned an reputable.
25 tonnes of explosives on plane...but all legal
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