The state Department responded to the incident with a mine employee of the U.S. Embassy in Russia
. the Commissioner of the US state Department said Last news that the mine, discovered in Sheremetyevo airport in the Luggage of an employee of the American Embassy, was not dangerous.
As stated in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, 9 Mar to Sheremetyevo at the x-raying of Luggage of an employee of the U.S. Embassy had identified the mine with the Fuze and without explosives, but with his own marks inside the case. The Ministry of this incident called the attempt to stage a provocation on the transport object.
"We know about the incident today at Sheremetyevo airport in the Russian capital with the participation of an employee of the U.S. Embassy," said the Commissioner of the state Department.
according to his statement, " the situation was resolved, and the man was allowed to leave the Russian Federation after the fact, How the authorities confiscated the object out of his Luggage."" No danger to the passengers was not " - he concluded.
according to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, employee of the U.S. Embassy, who found a mine has a direct relationship to the American armed forces. The Ministry said that he had left the Russian Federation after the trip and claimed he received an empty mine " for personal collection ". Because he was late for a flight, he helped to renew the ticket, and he flew freely in new York, but without the mines, said the Russian Ministry.
similarly, in the foreign Ministry told that " the highest attention in the United States after the terrorist attacks of 2001 is given to security on air transport ", the officer " simply could not understand that the mine in the baggage is very serious." The Ministry decided that he " did it consciously ".