Post date: Oct 31, 2010 6:47:41 PM
File of September crash of plane operated by U.S. logistics company UPS, after UAE rules out explosive device caused the incident.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (SEPTEMBER 3, 2010) REUTERS - The United Arab Emirates on Sunday (October 31) ruled out that an explosive device was aboard a Boeing 747-400 plane operated by U.S. parcel delivery firm UPS that crashed in Dubai in September.
Two air freight packages containing bombs -- both sent from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago -- were intercepted in Britain and Dubai last week.
Two crew members died when the cargo plane, which was en route to Cologne, Germany, crashed in a military compound near Dubai's airport on September 3 after the pilot reported fire and smoke in the cockpit.