The airline bomb plot in numbers
Sean O'Neill, Crime and Security Editor | September 7, 2009
The plot
386A - address of bomb factory on Forest Road, Walthamstow
£138,000 - purchase price of flat July 2006
7 - flights targeted for mid-air attack:
14.15 United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco
15.00 Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto
15.15 Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal
15.40 United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago
16.20 United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington
16.35 American Airlines Flight 139 to New York
16.50 American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago
2,000 - potential death toll in the air
5,000 - estimated death toll if planes crashed on cities
8 - defendants
20 - number of bombs they planned to make
500ml - size of bottles to be used for liquid bombs
100ml - current limit on liquids allowed in hand luggage
The investigation
26,066 exhibits seized
102 searches conducted
142 interviews with the defendants
9,710 witness statements taken
5 countries visited: Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Mauritius, Belgium
800 computers and devices examined (226 from internet cafes)
15,000 CDs and DVDs seized
500 floppy disks seized
14,000 gigabytes of computer storage space examined
28 surveillance teams
£8 million - cost to Thames Valley of policing woodland while it was searched for explosives
£38 million cost to Met
2 trials
