Botched Job saves Airliner...

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Over Christmas someone actually managed to get some explosives lit on an airliner. Thankfully, after the failures of multiple agencies to prevent the guy getting on the plane, it turns out the guy making the explosives also had no clue what he was doing. That botched job meant the explosives failed to go off properly, and a jet with 300 people on board didn't go down.

A Christmas Miracle, or incompetence, saving lives 300 at a time.

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Weird.

weird indeed.

One of the passengers on the plane saw he was struggling to ignite it and then leapt over the seats and tackled him. I think he's a movie producer of all things, so you'll see it on your screens soon enough.

The raw materials for explosive and detonators can be very unstable. That means they are just as likely to not go off.

The second London booming they used a similar design to the first but the mix was not good and it was too warm.

Richard Reid and this guy used component used in plastic explosives, but the components aren't as stable. There was years of testing that when into making c4 or semtex. Richard Reid had actual explosive detonator cord, it was just too conspicuous lighting his shoe. This guy it could have worked, it very much down to luck.

God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.

ruveyn

It is funny that you are religious when it suits you, yet in another thread you consider divine intervention ridiculous.

Regarding Richard Reid it seems his perspiration cause the fuse not to light. He aroused suspicious of the Paris authorities, and he was not able to get on the first flight because of security checks (he was travelling with no luggage), they gave him a ticket for the next day.

I guess the point is to be thankful for incompetence.

An Aspie would have pulled it off.