Geez, let's see, a guy wants to take down an airplane. So he goes to a gun store, buys a $4000 firearm, or has one smuggled in at even greater cost, 'cause we all know the Brady Laws wouldn't have allowed him to get one. Then he goes to the end of the runway at JFK, avoiding being seen the whole time, and takes what has GOT to be the luckiest shot in the world. Yep, that's JUST what happened. And he's disappointed because he didn't get his 72 virgins.
Besides, Alethia, if you had read earlier posts, you would see that the part of being the debris field was NOT the gist of the post. You must read in context. What I was stating was that if you were to make the shot, the engine would have exploded rather quickly, and would have ended up at the end of the runway somewhere. If you have a problem with this, I'll give you the same assignment that I gave Travis; contact an engineer and see if they can illustrate the part of the engine that would have been hit that would cause catastrophic failure four minutes later.