Originally Posted by
Feathers McGraw
At least an internal explosion will be dissipated by the body tissue around it, thus reducing the damage caused. A member of the Saudi royal family was uninjured within a few feet of such an explosion.
In this case it need only be held internally whilst passing through security, transferred to cabin baggage after that, and then placed at a suitable point in the a/c - even as pax, this would give more control than sending it cargo.
By my reckoning (based on published data) the explosive in the recent printer cartridge bombs would fit in a standard drinks can. If you go looking, it will not be difficult to find plenty of video evidence for the feasibility of bodily insertion and removal of objects this size...