I dont know if it has been posted on here so appologies, but the device was actually uplifted for further investigations by Leics Police air support units EC call sign HX55 before being declared later as explosive
There is even a pic in saturdays Telgraph of it being loaded on board
The implications of that going off on board a confined space like a chopper dont need explantation on here
Surely a foolhardy decission, even if it had been a purely innocent object in the end
What if it had been a concealled chemical aerosol spray, like Sarin that went off 1000 feet over a town en route
Cargo plane bomb plot in pictures - Telegraph