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Originally Posted by dsvick
Unfortunately the last few attempts have been exactly that - an attempt to simply blow up the plane in flight. I agree your solution would work great for hijackings but not for someone that simply wants to blow it up.
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What is interesting, though, is that after the 9/11 (where planes didn't blow up, but crashed onto buildings), airport security agencies and police/federal/military/secret agencies/whatyourcountryuses investigations show an increase in "attempts to blow up planes" (explosive materials found in hand luggages or hidden in shoes/clothes/other stuff, plans to "blow up planes" found in house of suspected terrorists, and so on).
This fact never smelled right to me, just because BEFORE the 9/11 there has been only a handful of such attacks made (in the whole history of flying). Bombs, fake bombs, and other "probably explosive materials" have always been used as a threatening tool to obtain something, never to JUST blow up the plane itself.
(Blowing up the plane usually is useful if you force the pilot to make the plane fly above a heavily populated city: think about the disaster)
Notice: the same thing is true for a lot of other terrorist attacks (trains, subways, cars...): the trains have been blown up close to train stations, subway wagons have been blown up at subway stations, and so on. Always choosing the most crowded place to get the highest effect (more deaths make people more scared).
It is my opinion (and I want to stress the words MY and OPINION) that all those "attempts to blow up planes" are either:
1) fake, as in fake news meant to divert attention from other matters (very unlikely, but there is at least ONE such confirmed episode here in Italy)
2) the result of journalists who "simplify" the headlines of their articles, not bothering to write things like "this guy had explosive materials meant to build a small explosive device which he intended to use to blow up the plane above New York so that the plane would crash down on the city killing hundreds of people" and thinking that "terrorist tries to blow up plane, is discovered and arrested" is a much better headline.