'Pipe bomber' stopped at Manchester airport let on plane 2 days later

A man who tried to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a flight from Manchester to Italy was able to board another plane 2 days later, a court heard. Nadeem Muhammad was searched as he attempted to board a flight to Bergamo Jan 30. Security officers found the device, made from batteries, tape, a marker pen and pins, in the zip lining of a small suitcase he was carrying. A trial at Manchester crown court Monday was told that Muhammad had intended to detonate the device on the Ryanair flight. Airport security swabbed the confiscated device but found no trace of explosives, so concluded it was not dangerous. He missed his flight, but was not arrested, and was able to board another flight to Italy a few days later. “At that stage nobody had realised this was a real device," said the prosecution. <br/>