Unfreakening believable. I wonder if this will finally start waking people up or if the MSM will continue to cover for terrorists.
Now from WDIV TV in Detroit. The person went to the bathroom, came back holding a pillow, sat down and started doing something under it. The fire stared and he was jumped on by two passagers who put the fire out and held him.
No link, just watched local news.
From what I’ve heard it appears to be this:
He smuggled two chemicals on board the plane taped to his leg, one liquid, one powder.
On board he mixed them to produce a liquid that would accelerate the combustion of the pillow’s fiber fill, and possibly also ignite it.
He got it on the pillow, and started it burning. Probably with the intent of filling the airliner with smoke, possibly to start a cabin fire as well. It could have caused death through smoke inhalation, and possibly affected the ability of the pilots to land (vision & breathing) and possibly a panic to cause the passengers to affect the aircraft’s balance.
I haven’t seen anything reliable (yet) that suggests there was an explosive.
Overall I’d rate this attack as hair-brained and lame, but it shows a few things:
They have a process for bringing small quantities of prohibited or suspicious materials on board (plastic containers on leg.)
They’ve been finding materials that’ll pass undetected through routine screening.
They either don’t have, or didn’t trust this guy with, anything especially destructive. Yet.
What have others got?