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Originally Posted by AGDee
Yes, most flights coming from Europe to Detroit are only over American soil for the last hour, if that. If you blow up the plane earlier than that, you are probably over the ocean and you minimize the damage to those people actually on the plane. That was my understanding for their reasoning for the "last hour" thing. Although, so much of what the media is saying is speculation anyway.
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It takes me more than an hour to fly from the east coast to Detroit when I've been there. Maybe they fly faster when coming from Europe. I stand corrected. Either way, you put together the bomb at 1hour 10 minutes, go back to your seat and detonate it closer to landing. That bomb wouldn't have made much of an impact on a city anyway. It was meant to bring down an airplane. It had enough power to blow a hole in the side of a plane. A plane at the end of a trans-atlantic flight would have little fuel and would crash killing the people on board no matter where it landed. The point of the 911 hijackings was that it involved planes with full fuel tanks that they used to crash into buildings causing major damage. This bomb was meant to terrorize like the Lockerbie bombing. It didn't even happen in the US, but that didn't terrorize us any less.
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