Want to blow up an airplane with common household chemicals? The Register explained the process a few weeks ago:
Once the plane is over the ocean, very discreetly bring all of your gear into the toilet. You might need to make several trips to avoid drawing attention. Once your kit is in place, put a beaker containing the peroxide / acetone mixture into the ice water bath (Champagne bucket), and start adding the acid, drop by drop, while stirring constantly. Watch the reaction temperature carefully. The mixture will heat, and if it gets too hot, you’ll end up with a weak explosive. In fact, if it gets really hot, you’ll get a premature explosion possibly sufficient to kill you, but probably no one else.
After a few hours – assuming, by some miracle, that the fumes haven’t overcome you or alerted passengers or the flight crew to your activities – you’ll have a quantity of TATP with which to carry out your mission. Now all you need to do is dry it for an hour or two.
The genius of this scheme is that TATP is relatively easy to detonate. But you must make enough of it to crash the plane, and you must make it with care to assure potency. One needs quality stuff to commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale,” as Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson put it. While it’s true that a slapdash concoction will explode, it’s unlikely to do more than blow out a few windows. At best, an infidel or two might be killed by the blast, and one or two others by flying debris as the cabin suddenly depressurizes, but that’s about all you’re likely to manage under the most favorable conditions possible.
They have a political axe to grind, but they also make a good case for the chemistry. You can make explosives from common household chemicals, but you probably can’t do it in an airplane toilet.
Why are you telling people that.
Dumbass. You need to die.
why? cocksucker
yea freedom of information is good…hell blowing things up is a riot…but a plane? really? dude, make some friends.
Did either of you actually bother to read the piece I quoted?
It was in response to TSA fears of terrorists sneaking the ingredients of explosives onto a plane and mixing them up in flight. The point is that while it’s possible in theory, it would be extremely difficult to do in practice. You’d need to do careful chemistry in an airplane bathroom, and you’d need several hours of privacy without attracting suspicion. On a commercial passenger jet. With a flight crew and hundreds of other passengers.