[taxcontrol]

Yeah, and I really doubt that someone intent on blowing up the plane is really going to pay attention to that announcement about it being against Federal law to tamper with a smoke detector. Most smoke detectors are in the 3 amp range... that is enough juice for many detonators... but I don't know about igniting raw explosives.

[MonroeDNA]

In most airline bathrooms I've been in, there is a 120VAC outlet for electric razors.

But all you would need is, perhaps, 3 bottles of nailpolish remover (purchased after security), and a pack of matches, to light a plane on fire from the inside.

The inside has a lot of carpeting and plastic, which would burn like the dickens.

Black smoke choking people to death in a couple minutes. And God help you if you drop down the oxygen masks.

[RunningWolf]

Good point, that was one of the tings I was not going to mention. There are literally thousands of points of access to tap some electrical current in an airplane.

Another method would be to build the battery into the buttons of a coat. I will wildly speculate that they might even figure out how to weave the explosive into a cloth appearing substance and wear it on the airplane, activate it with another substance and then detonate it.

W.