He Tried to Destroy a Plane. Physics Destroyed His Plan.
On February 2, 2016, a suicide bomber attempted to bring down a commercial airliner. He failed — not because of luck, but because physics didn’t cooperate. A laptop bomb was detonated aboard Daallo Airlines Flight 159, an Airbus A321 departing Mogadishu, Somalia. Just minutes after takeoff, the explosion ripped a hole in the aircraft’s fuselage. … Read more