Oh, Brother!!

[ravan]

Well, now they've gone too far - the "official" word is: NO LIQUIDS OR GELS OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERMITTED IN CARRY-ON BAGGAGE. ITEMS MUST BE IN CHECKED BAGGAGE. This includes all beverages, shampoo, suntan lotion, creams, tooth paste, hair gel, and other items of similar consistency.
Well, until they stop this silliness, I won't be flying unless

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[koga]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chemicals sitting in anyone's bathroom at home could be used to make an easily smuggled bomb that would badly damage a passenger jet, and experts have been warning about this danger for years. The difficult part, experts say, is putting together such a bomb without blowing yourself up

[koga]

I spent 2 years working as an Fed Sec Screener after the TSA went online. The TSA does not make a practice, oft maligned tweezer and scissors policy aside, of purposefully inconveniancing its passengers.

[koga]

Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink

[ravan]

Technically, they could use the drug mule method of carrying such a thing - up the rectum.

That said, the explosive would not be enough to bring down the plane. Maybe depressurize it, but not bring it down, unless half the passengers blew their asses up.

It still strikes me as a frigging movie plot, and dubious. False bottoms to cans aren't that easy to make without it being noticed. Nitrocellulose clothing is more feasible.

[koga]

You don't need to do a whole lot of damage to bring a passenger jet down when its at 35,000 feet. A frighteningly low amount of damage will render it a falling chunk of metal.

[ravan]

Then a fountain pen with metallic sodium in the barrel should suffice. Empty out the oil based ink, and leave the thing to burn after flushing it down the toilet. Use several to be sure. If you make sure the barrel is partially magnesium, I'm sure it would only make it worse.

How's that for a movie plot? Incendiaries could still damage the structural integrity of a jet, causing it to depressurize and break up.

Or you could get several guys to make a diversion while a couple more pried open one of the emergency doors with an improvised crowbar made from a coffee pot, while chanting "Allah Ahkbar!".

Precisely

[shrikefeather]

You can't stop it

[jilara]

I see a future Mythbusters episode coming out of this. I'd love to know what they were planning to put in the sports drink container--red nitroglycerine? "Um, don't jiggle my drink, man!"