Bomb on plane -- if you've ever wondered
 

Richard Reid had his shoe bomb, there was the liquid scare a few years ago, etc. If you've ever wondered exactly how little explosives it takes to catastrophically damage an aircraft in flight take a look at this:

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...47bombtest.jpg

That's GRAMS folks. Not much at all.

Missing da link dere boss

Huh? I see it.

Edit: Stand by.

Double edit: Try it now.

Yup it works now.


200 grams isn't much at all....

heck a bullet hole will take down a plane too at 30k ft

Dayum!!That's crazy! remind me not to fly when thats supposed to happen :lol:

That's a myth.

well but it`s not to be taken lightly either

the problem is that at higher altitudes there is a great pressure differential between cabin pressure and the actual pressure outside the cabin.
As everything in nature strives for balance,the air wants to expand to compensate the pressure difference :
which means that the cabin expands too...and in case of a sudden compression this might be ugly
now imagine something exploding in there...like hot air expanding rapidly..doh..no fun:D

thanks Gobbles,that`s a very interesting pic

Didn't watch mythbusters, ehh?

It seems we have a non-mythbusters fan here.