Airport Security
Trying to beef up airport security is pretty fucking funny in my mind. For one, about 90% of the time, I know I could get a gun and at least one bullet on board of a plane. The only times I probably could not would be on those rare occasions where I get patted down. See, Glock makes a 95% plastic gun, with only the barrel, firing spring, and a few other small parts being metal. Therefore the majority of the gun would pass a metal detector. The other part could easily be fitted into everyday items: firing pen would go into the inside of an expensive, all metal pen. The barrel, a larger metal item such as a cane (got to learn to fake a limp pretty damn well, but its do-able), or a laptop or something like that. Hell you could create a pocket in your metal laptop case or something. Why would anyone want one bullet to create terror on a plane? Well, one bullet can easily take an airliner down at high altitudes, just shoot a window, the plane depressurises, bad things happen, and most of the time the plane will crash. BTW, I am not a terrorist, I just think being so fucking worried about terrorists is a waist of time.
posted by WCD_Thor at 4:01 PM
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Possible, but unlikely, particularly on a large airliner. Just for fun, maybe you would like to check out this Hawaiian flight. Aeroplanes are built fairly well.
What would be more worrying is if your bullet managed to hit a good chunk of hydraulics or electrical wiring. If you 'got lucky', then there might be some fairly catastrophic control failures.
Considering that anyone wanting to blow up a plane with the type of liquid explosives those 21 "terrorists" in Britian were supposedly going to use would need at least 32 ounces of it to do any damage to a bulkhead, I think a bullet creating masive decompresion is a bigger threat. Also, if you could get one bullet on the plane in a cane, why not a full clip, or half a clip, that way you could hijack a plane. Also, after reading the link you kindly provided, it seems to me that in that particular case, the people on the plane were very lucky, and that a violent decompresion caused by bullets could, but not always, take down a plane, especialy if it was on a long flight with no where to make an emergency landing.
You should watch Mythbusters. They killed the myth of the bullet through the window. The plane depressurizes, but not the point of implosion or explosion. People aren't sucked out the hole either.
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