A British terror suspect denied today that he had been plotting to blow up a plane.
Mr Sajid Badat (25) appeared at London's Old Bailey court via video link from a top security jail where he is being held.
He pleaded not guilty to an accusation that between January 1st, 1999, and November 28th, 2003, he "conspired with another or others to place or cause to be placed on an aircraft in service a device or substance which was likely to destroy the aircraft, or was likely so to damage it as to render it incapable of flight".
He also denied other charges of possessing a safety fuse, a length of detonating cord and a quantity of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, one of the strongest known high explosives.
Legal restrictions mean no further details of the alleged plot can be made public at this stage.
Mr Badat, who was arrested in the southwestern town of Gloucester last November, was remanded in custody to stand trial on February 28th next year.