Container with electronic testing gear explodes in plane SAN FRANCISCO (AP) =97 A shipping container packed with electronic test=20 equipment exploded inside an airliner's cargo hold Sunday while passengers= =20 were boarding, officials said. A battery pack in the container of=20 electronic gear may have been to blame for the small blast, said Mike=20 McCarron, a spokesman for San Francisco International Airport. United Flight No. 33 was preparing for takeoff on a flight to Kauai Island,= =20 Hawaii. "As the baggage handler was moving bags around the cargo hold one=20 of the packed shipping containers exploded, a minor explosion, and blew the= =20 hinges off" the container, McCarron said. There were no injuries, McCarron= =20 said, but the baggage handler was "upset." He said the container was well=20 padded and insulated and would likely not have caused any damage to the=20 plane had it been airborne. Passengers were evacuated and rescheduled for=20 an alternate flight. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.cso.gov.tt TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************