Comments on: Underwear Bomber Couldn’t Have Brought Down Flight 253, Simulation Suggests

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:37:39 +0000

What a silly person you are. You think I would state such a fact without having calcuable proof. I’m a physics professor, the math prooves my statement, not this lame excuse to make people feel safe.
I’m not talking shrapnel dear sir, I’m speaking in terms of the shockwave created by the explosion. Math is my proof. I shall post it if you’d like.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:42:24 +0000

An explosive charge “the size of a hand grenade” does it’s damage by scattering shrapnel at high velocity and inflicting tissue damage. Pressurized or not makes little difference. Pressurized doesn’t mean the cabin is air-tight. It just means it’s regulated to maintain a certain pressure. A sudden increase in pressure results in the plane venting air to rebalance the system. Just like electricity or water, air follows the path of least resistance, and blasting through the hull or a sealed doorway, is not.

The impact of the actual volume of expanding gas from such a small charge would be akin to sneezing in a car with doors closed.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:11:00 +0000

What an absurd examination. That isn’t a simulation at all. The plane would have been pressurized, with closed doors, flying 30,000 feet up. The blast most certainly would have taken down the plane. Think about it. An already pressurized plane undergoes a drastic increase in pressure by a bomb. That would certainly be enough to penetrate 5mm thick airplane-grade aluminum. The people were thankfully lucky. It Is also naive for anyone to think that the so called jihadists are idiots. It should be taken more seriously than that. Our discerning governments know it.

By: Arthur Taylor

Arthur Taylor — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:14:58 +0000

Actually, I think it’s a darn good idea that these fool “jihadists” were de-scarified and exposed for the idiotic numpties they really are. Yes, sometimes they manage to do terrible things, but mostly they’re idiots and any success they have is more down to luck than planning.

This movie should be required viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwcj7o4pW_o

We are in almost no danger at all, and prats like this entirely fail to scare me. This simulation supports that view, and to me that’s a very good thing, unless one enjoys being scared and demonising the admittedly violent, but entirely clueless.

By: Reg Pinder

Reg Pinder — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:01:41 +0000

Does it really matter? The simple fact that he tried to bring it down should be enough to lock him up for good. There really was no point to these tests.

By: Don Baron

Don Baron — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:24:22 +0000

Dear Sirs,
Personally, I don’t think this was such a great idea to show terrorist and would be terrorist how not to detonate your underwear bomb. Perhaps you should show how a bomb should be made in order to take down an airliner. This would save the terrorist much time and money for research and development. Don Baron Wellington Fl