Passenger Planes Also at Risk From Cargo

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LONDON - The mail bombs discovered aboard cargo jets in England and Dubai could very easily have ended up on passenger planes, which carry more than half of the international air cargo coming into the U.S., experts say.

And experts caution that cargo, even when loaded onto passenger planes, is sometimes lightly inspected or even completely unexamined, particularly when it comes from countries without well- developed aviation security systems.

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Passenger Planes Also at Risk From Cargo

About 60 percent of all cargo flown into the U.S. is on pas...

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