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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
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). |
Who says that planes are the only target? Any meeting where lots of people meet (think marathons, but also shopping centers, office buildings, christmas markets, any place where people gather) could be targeted. Should they simply ban all those things? Most of those things you don't even have anything approaching the security at airports.