fireworks on board

hano

I'M currently sitting in CDG after boarding EI523 to DUB shortly after having to disembark due to fireworks found on the plane. My question is how would these manage to get through security at Dublin airport. The pilot explanation was that some school kids on the previous flight brought them on board.

Noxegon

In that case I'd have thought cabin crew would find them during cleaning...

St. Leibowitz

Noxegon wrote: »

In that case I'd have thought cabin crew would find them during cleaning...

The question wasn't who found them, but how they got on board.

If it was in carry on baggage, probably very likely to be discovered, as all cabin baggage is x-rayed by smart scanners, which returns an image processed by material density and colour coded to alert to certain compositions and densities which are suspicious and organic in nature, based on a data base of known materials.

Most likely that in this case, it was in somebodies pocket. People pass through a metal detector, and while "random" samples are selected for further screening by pat down and swabbing, it would be easy for small quantities to get through. It's unlikely that even a large firework could cause enough damage to adversely affect an aircraft in flight. It may cause some cosmetic damage, and the possibility of fire can't be discounted, but apart from possibly injuring some people, and frighting everybody on board, no real threat posed to the operation of the aircraft.

Possible that the kid brought it aboard inadvertently, then discovered it and dumped it rather than risk another pass through security in the form of customs, probably encouraged in their actions by classmates. Once something like this gets known, the chances of being ratted on raise exponentially as word spreads up to the front, and the teachers.

andy_g

It's unlikely that even a large firework could cause enough damage to adversely affect an aircraft in flight. It may cause some cosmetic damage, and the possibility of fire can't be discounted

Before getting into aviation i worked around explosives and other munitions, remember that an A/C is a pressure vessel and as such would be effected by pressure waves more so than the actual firework itself.

Easy way to look at it low pressure outside the fuselage higher pressure from cabin pressure and then more pressure from a pyrotechnic charge going off could cause damage to the surrounding area and the fact that its through air and not water it could cause structural damage.

pete4130

I flew to and from Heathrow out of Dublin a few years ago and brought an old bag I had lying around. When I finally got back to Dublin I emptied the bag and found several fireworks in the bag that I had forgotten about years previously. It happens.

Riskymove

Reports were that the fireworks were those little "bangers" that you throw on the ground...rather than roman candles or whatever

ProfessorPlum

Riskymove wrote: »

Reports were that the fireworks were those little "bangers" that you throw on the ground...rather than roman candles or whatever

Ah jasus, a group of lads after a stag weekend would be more explosive than those yokes 😆