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There is a detonator or pull switch or microswitch in there. and the other thing is that some things to look at. we can't confuse the bomber's intent with his ability, as jonathan pointed out, it could have been poorly made. ki look at it and te-- and i ca the tell you many of the things that are poorly made, and i don't want to educate the guy, so i won't point them out, but every person was opened by a civilian target, and the bomb squad opened, so we don't know how it would have happened in a civilian's hands, and we don't know that yet. they are looking at that in the lab. and secondly, sh...

Is this bomber? >> yes, he's adept at making the fusing and firing systems. we sort of wigged out about the trip wire. but look, the process to rig a device, one way to do that is an interior trip wire. you open the lid. the string pulls the contact. to go to a trip wire, you just put a longer string. it's not that much of a sophistication necessarily. he's mastered the little micro switch that either detonated the device when you open it or tilt it or move it. we call it anti-disturbance device. he has a trip wire. now he's going back to a package device. he may have a safe arm switch. here's...

Originated because when they put the landing gear down, one of the indications didn't appear correctly, which led them to doubt whether that nose gear was actually down and locked. >> i see. >> it is entirely possible. >> so is it possible, dan, the light could be wrong and that the landing gear on the nose is down? >> absolutely. it could be anything from the lightbulb in the actual light has burnt out, it could be the microswitch that triggers that light to come on in the cockpit is broken, it could be worst case scenario, unlikely, but it could be the actual nose gear isn't down and locked....