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Originally Posted by crich70
Since they were recovered during a raid I'd wager that it takes time to do it. That not a lot of people have the know how to manage such. A pressure cooker bomb or a fertilizer/diesel fuel bomb on the other hand is something that anyone can make fairly easily without having to have a lot of $ and easy to find information. Or so I understand. Some pro-extremist websites probably have it all laid out for the would be terrorist. And there are things like the anarchists cookbook I'm guessing that have such info as well.
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Probably quite hard to do whilst on a plane though, "Excuse me, could I just plug in my pressure cooker? I fancy a snack in 4 or 5 hours."
Also, I believe, fertiliser bombs and the like tend to be quite large and bulky.
I'd assume the size of the device banned has been picked as the minimum size that can hold an explosive big enough to do enough damage to a plane to cause a serious issue (Or at least a trade off between enough damage / too much inconvenience).
For those saying that your convenience is more important than your safety, well, it's a trade off that people make all the time. I tend to look both ways before crossing a road, sure it slows me down, but I can live with it.