[Sir Gawain]

Yeah my ex military coworker was saying how he could go thru security empty handed and buy enough stuff in the shops to construct a bomb onboard, and all it would have to do is cause a fire over the Atlantic and it's all over. Wouldn't even have to be a huge explosion.

What's shocking is that this hasn't been attempted before now.

[taxcontrol]

I'm prior service as well and we were trained in improvised munitions... ways of making ordinary things "go burn or boom". Smuggling basic components on to a plane is a trivial task. A little harder to build an effective bomb from components behind the TSA security screening but not impossible.