You probably thought the German trains never running on time wasn’t intentional. Their federal office of constitution protection (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) has revealed that the entropy of DHL package timelines actually prevented a Russian bomb from catching fire and crashing an airplane.

Thomas Haldenwang, head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, said that only a lucky coincidence meant that the package caught fire on the ground at a DHL logistics centre in Leipzig and not in mid-air. He did not say if it was a passenger or freight plane. Haldenwang told a parliamentary committee at the German Bundestag that if the package had ignited during the flight, “it would have resulted in a crash”.