Authorities charged an Army expert for attempting to board a plane with a military-grade explosive at a Texas airport in an incident official downplayed as nothing nefarious.

Trey Scott Atwater, 30, of Hope Mills, North Carolina, was taken into custody.

Transportation Security Administration agents spotty the item in his carry-on through X-ray screening at a security checkpoint at the Midland International Airport, Midland police and city officials said.

The material was recognized as an explosive; though it was determined there was no way to ignite it as there was no detonator or initiator, a law enforcement official told CNN on condition of anonymity. The official was not authorized to release the info to the media.

Atwater was an active-duty army soldier, the official said.

The incident push the evacuation and temporary-closure of a part of an airport terminal, authorities said.

"At no-time was there any risk to the people at Midland International Airport or the community of Midland, Texas," Mark Morgan, an FBI spokesman, said in a report.

Atwater has been arrested on a federal count of trying to board an aircraft with an explosive, Morgan said.

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