Erik wrote:
Highflyer wrote:
It is interesting. We have car bombs, roadside bombs, truck bombs,
and other homemade of purchased bombs going off every day around the
world. Nowhere have I ever heard of a Cessna 150 bomb!

There was that one jackass that flew his cessna (I don't know
what model) into the side of the White House. I'm certain he
was violating restricted airspace.

The other question is: If you were to take a 150, load it up with
fuel, misc minor equipment, how much explosive could you get on there?

I guess it would be in the neighborhood of 250 pounds or so, which is
enough to make me nervous. It certainly wouldn't be an "Oklahoma
City" bomb, though. I guess if you plotted it all out well, you could
manage more. Not that I've thought about the logistics much, I just
think it's moderately low on the risk scale.

It is very low risk mainly because there are so many easier ways to get X
amount of explosives on target.

I would expect that there is much more chance that if a terrorist were to do
so the target of the attack would not be where the explosives went but GA
itself.

All terrorists don't come from sand land. There are those that will do
stupid, evil crap for just about any cause. And if you look at some of the
anti-aviation groups that are out there it is just a matter of time till one
of them does something really stupid.