Originally Posted by
jabird
Could anyone comment on the ability of a single member of SLF to take out an aircraft using nothing other than items allowed onboard.
I know AC 797 was a discarded butt (ie not intentional), but if your intention was malice and you had a litre of duty free vodka + reams of available paper in the toilet + a single ignition source?
Night flight, would anyone be looking at who took what into the toilet?
It's off topic but you've hit a nail I've been banging for years.
We forbid all kinds of items through security.
Then once they're airside we let the pax buy bottles of high-proof rum in duty-free. Stick a napkin in the neck and you have a moderately effective improvised Molotov cocktail. Break the bottle over the seat in front of you and you have an improvised weapon no less deadly than a boxcutter. A coordinated attack along those lines by multiple individuals is possible and it
might even be effective - but damn few people seem to be willing to even consider the possible vulnerabilities there.