Russian devices that catch fire are ‘undetectable’ by airport scanners, security expert warns

Russian devices that catch fire in airplane baggage holds and airport warehouses are “undetectable” by scanners, a security expert has warned.

Jim Termini, an aviation security consultant who works with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), said that the type of devices found planted on a flight to Britain from Leipzig earlier this year could go undetected by current security processes.

Russia is suspected of placing an incendiary device on a plane to Britain in a sabotage attack that could have caused the aircraft to crash out of the sky.

British counter-terrorism police are investigating after the parcel containing the device caught fire in a DHL warehouse in Birmingham on July 22.

The Telegraph understands that there are suspicions that Moscow was behind the attack.

The suspect parcel arrived in Birmingham by air, The Guardian reported. If it had ignited while the plan