CNN New Day February 21, 2014 12:11:00
The detonation mechanism was not successf successful. if they can put -- assembly a bomb that has the sort of blast effect and they can get the detonation right and they can get it past our screening methods, it could have a very serious impact. and we've seen sort of experts explode bombs and show the impact of them blowing out the side of a plane, but it requires a whole lot of things to go right. and fortunately up to now, they haven't been able to pull it off. >> we weren't blind to this threat before, so there are screening methods in place. >> especially at flights in emanate outside the...
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