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The '''2006 transatlantic aircraft plot''' was a [[Terrorism|terrorist]] plot to detonate [[Explosive material|liquid explosives]], carried aboard [[airliner]]s travelling from the [[United Kingdom]] to the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], disguised as soft drinks.<ref>{{cite news|first=Bob |last=Sherwood |author2=Stephen Fidler |title=MI5 tracked group for a year |work=Financial Times |date=10 August 2006 |access-date=17 February 2009 |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cbed2e12-28b5-11db-a2c1-0000779e2340.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026170433/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cbed2e12-28b5-11db-a2c1-0000779e2340.html |archive-date=26 October 2006 |url-status=live }}</ref> The plot was discovered by British [[Metropolitan Police]] during an extensive surveillance operation. As a result of the plot, unprecedented security measures were initially implemented at airports. The measures were gradually relaxed during the following weeks, but passengers are still not allowed to carry liquid containers larger than 100 ml onto commercial aircraft in their [[hand luggage]] in the UK and most other countries, {{As of|2025|lc=y}}.
Of 24 suspects who were arrested in and around London on the night of 9 August 2006, eight were tried initially for terrorism offences associated with the plot. The first trial occurred from April to September 2008. The jury failed to reach a verdict on charges of conspiracy to kill by blowing up aircraft but did find three men guilty of conspiracy to murder and acquitted one other of all charges. During September 2009, a second trial (of the now seven originally accused but with the addition of another man) found three men guilty of conspiracy to kill by blowing up aircraft and one other guilty of conspiracy to murder, while the 'additional' man was exonerated of all terrorism charges.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8242238.stm |title='Three guilty of airline bomb plot' |date=7 September 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=19 February 2009 |archive-url=https://
During July 2010, a further three of the accused were found guilty at a third trial at [[Woolwich Crown Court]] of conspiracy to murder.<ref name=BBC12710>{{cite news|title=Would-be suicide bombers jailed for life |date=12 July 2010 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10600084.stm |work=BBC News |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711220841/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10600084.stm |archive-date=11 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thus, of the nine men tried, two were acquitted and seven found guilty of conspiracy charges.
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Technology news website ''[[The Register]]'' explored the practicalities of producing [[TATP]] on board a plane from constituent liquids and concluded that, while theoretically possible, the chances of success would be extremely low. Later, following additional details revealed at the trial, ''The Register'' wrote that the plot and bombing method chosen were viable.<ref>{{cite news|first=Thomas C. |last=Greene |date=17 August 2006 |title=Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible? |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/ |access-date=18 February 2009 |work=[[The Register]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203161439/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/ |archive-date=3 December 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Page|first=Lewis|title=Yes, there was a viable liquid bomb plot|url=https://www.theregister.com/2008/09/10/liquid_bomb_verdicts/|access-date=2020-11-27|website=www.theregister.com|language=en}}</ref>
Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, declared the plot to be "fiction", an invention of the UK security services intended to justify new security measures that threatened to permanently curtail civil liberties. He said the explosives in question could not possibly have been produced on the plane.<ref>{{cite news|first=Nafeez |last=Ahmed |author-link=Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed |date=16 September 2006 |title=Sources: August terror plot is a 'fiction' underscoring police failures |url=http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Sources_August_Terror_Plot_Fiction_Underscoring_0918.html |access-date=18 February 2009 |work=[[The Raw Story]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208194823/http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Sources_August_Terror_Plot_Fiction_Underscoring_0918.html |archive-date=8 December 2008 }}</ref><ref>IOL.co.za: [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1157375162381B226 British bomb-plot suspects appear in court] {{
==Security repercussions==
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