Tang? or the airplane liguids ban explained

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themanintheseersuckersuit · #1 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Sat May 17, 2008 12:34 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356491,00.html

Tang, peroxide and a disposable camera — items you may very well have in your home — can be a deadly mix.

Far-fetched as it sounds, bombs made from hydrogen peroxide and the breakfast powder drink Tang could have taken down seven planes bound for the U.S. and Canada — using flash cameras to trigger the explosions.

A British court saw video evidence this week of the "liquid explosives plot," an alleged terrorist cabal British police say they thwarted in August 2006. The suspects allegedly had planned to use common household chemicals to mix bombs while aboard jets flying over the Atlantic.

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ghostjmf · #2 Post by **ghostjmf** » Sat May 17, 2008 12:38 pm

So far, they have let me travel with my disposable camera. Someone else I guess will have to bring the Tang & the peroxide. That's a joke, airline folks! It was a joooooooooo.............

Jeemie · #3 Post by **Jeemie** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:22 pm

ghostjmf wrote:So far, they have let me travel with my disposable camera. Someone else I guess will have to bring the Tang & the peroxide. That's a joke, airline folks! It was a joooooooooo.............

This explains why you can't get your frequent flyer ticket...

elwoodblues · #4 Post by **elwoodblues** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:16 pm

I thought only MacGyver could do that.

Jeemie · #5 Post by **Jeemie** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:38 am

elwoodblues wrote:I thought only MacGyver could do that.

Did they mention anything about duct tape?

AnnieCamaro · #6 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:10 am

Jeemie wrote:
Did they mention anything about duct tape?

The evil squirrels have it all.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #7 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:11 am

Or a bendy straw?

mrkelley23 · #8 Post by **mrkelley23** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:58 am

It's the peroxide that led to the liquids ban, and the "difficult" ingredient in this particular bomb. You can't just go buy 2% peroxide from your local pharmacy -- it's got to be very high potency, around 30% or greater, to be a good enough reducing agent to make the Tang explosive. And since hydrogen peroxide is so unstable, especially when exposed to light, that's why they were particularly suspicious of liquids in containers that wouldn't be exposed to light, or were opaque in the first place.

wbtravis007 · #9 Post by **wbtravis007** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:45 pm

Last time I tried to get a little 'tang on a plane, I actually got lucky.

Course, that was back in the day.

The time before that, one of the flight attendants filed a complaint.

I had to convince everybody that I had just asked for a little spoon for my tang.