David Newman
2006-08-16 00:43:14 UTC
I'm puzzled. I thought that most explosives will just burn harmlessly,
unless you detonate them inside a strong casing. It is the casing that
allows the pressure to build up until it shatters, producing a high
pressure blast that can cause damage.
But the X-ray screening of hand baggage will pick up large strong metal
casings. Wouldn't that mean that bombers would, at best, be able to
improvise a small firebomb from their smuggled nitroglycerin, TNT or
whatever? So how could that cause the aeroplane to crash? I haven't
heard any explanation of how a strong enough blast could be produced to
structurally damage the skin or the control lines of the aircraft enough
to make it unflyable.
unless you detonate them inside a strong casing. It is the casing that
allows the pressure to build up until it shatters, producing a high
pressure blast that can cause damage.
But the X-ray screening of hand baggage will pick up large strong metal
casings. Wouldn't that mean that bombers would, at best, be able to
improvise a small firebomb from their smuggled nitroglycerin, TNT or
whatever? So how could that cause the aeroplane to crash? I haven't
heard any explanation of how a strong enough blast could be produced to
structurally damage the skin or the control lines of the aircraft enough
to make it unflyable.