Word: blowing
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...Karen Sherrouse was a flight attendant on the jet that Richard Reid tried to blow up. When one of her colleagues tried to stop Reid, Sherrouse rushed to help. But she couldn't get down the aisle because so many passengers had already joined the melee. "They were instantly on him," she remembers. "It was a group effort." And so it should be. The flight attendants can't be everywhere at once. Nor can TSA officers...
...authorities are always fighting the last war. Ever since Richard Reid tried to ignite his shoes, loaded with the explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001, U.S. travelers have had to remove their footwear for scanning before boarding. After a plot to blow up several airliners over the Atlantic with small amounts of liquid explosives was uncovered in London in 2006, travelers were barred from carrying containers with more than 3.4 oz. (100 ml) of fluid each through security checkpoints...
...Yemen and western Pakistan have not fully mastered the chemistry of high-temperature charges needed to detonate compact high explosives - or acquired deadlier weapons of mass destruction - it is reasonable to assume they eventually will. Security experts say the chemical packet Abdulmutallab carried was more than enough to blow a good-size hole in the side of the fuselage, had he successfully triggered...
...result, many passengers familiar with the Lagos airport aren't surprised that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the young man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit, could have boarded his flight with liquid explosives. "They tell you, Take your shoes off, take your boots off, take your belt off, but the woman who is looking at the X-ray machine is looking at you to give her a tip," says Victor Chidi Asaba-One, 41, a businessman who shuttles between Detroit and Lagos about 20 times a year, often on the same KLM and Northwest flights that...
...involved, but thank God he was not. He is a bit reserved and we thought we should give him some space. He is a young man and we were apprehensive he could be easily influenced." Still, said the source, "we were all shocked to hear that he attempted to blow up a plane...