The capsule was not lost through cartoonish buffoonery, but through an almost cinematic series of events. According to the authorities, the sensor containing th

The capsule was not lost through cartoonish buffoonery, but through an almost cinematic series of events. According to the authorities, the sensor containing the capsule was placed inside a wooden box, which was screwed onto a pallet and placed in the back of a flatbed truck. They believe that vibrations from the truck caused the sensor to shake apart and also dislodged a mounting bolt, leaving a hole in the bottom of the box. The capsule is believed to have fallen out of the sensor, through the bolt-hole, onto the surface of the truck, and bounced off into the road. I kept reading articles looking for this information, questioning what process could have possibly lead to this "surely it wasn't just standalone, surely it was in some form of lead box or something." This finally answers my question but leads to even more questions: Why is it just hanging out in the flatbed of a truck in a box? Does the driver know they're hauling something radioactive? Did nobody consider that this might happen?