It set the moment of detonation at 5 30 a.m.
The video, which included the moment of detonation, showed the full harrowing extent of the carnage.
Robert Hughes compared Bacon's face in it to "a hand grenade on the point of detonation".
An official said today the explosive effect of detonation "would have been significant".
Lower temperatures reduce the chances of detonation, a destructive condition that occurs when fuel ignites prematurely.
Mr Hortefeux spoke about the time of detonation after French police arrested two men suspected of planning a terrorist attack.
And when the boarding house settles back into itself, there is distinctly the smell of detonation and destruction.
The Observer can reveal that police even found footage from train carriages showing the bombers at the moment of detonation.
Because city-destroying bombs couldn't be built by trial and error, computers were required to simulate the physics of detonation and blast waves.
Written in Romanian, then rewritten in French, this sly little work of detonation was inspired by the non sequiturs used in an English-for-foreigners language program.
It appeared the attackers were able to move freely to the point of detonation because there were no metal detectors at entrances to the airport.
