Perhaps you wondered how much damage Richard Reid could possibly have done with explosives in his shoe. The FBI wondered the same thing, so they constructed an identical shoe bomb. The results are most impressive.
[Link to News of the World Removed]
UPDATE:
I should rename this post The Perils of Believing Newspapers. I thought that plane looked familiar. It is not, as the News of the World claims, an FBI reconstruction of the Reid shoe-bomb. It’s a much earlier test run on an L-1011 (PDF) They were trying to see if new luggage containers could mitigate luggage bombs.
Feel free to follow the LGF link above. Charles has the correction and a hat tip.
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