{"id":9105,"date":"2010-03-08T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2010-03-07T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T14:58:55","slug":"thanks-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9105","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news:\u00a0 The Eunuchbomber&#8217;s underwear bomb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1255722\/Test-explosion-shows-Christmas-Day-flight-landed-bomb-detonated.html\">probably wouldn&#8217;t have destroyed the 747.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bomb on board a U.S. Christmas Day flight would have failed to bring the plane down even if it had been detonated successfully, a new test explosion suggests.<\/p>\n<p>A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of smuggling on board, failed to burst the fuselage.<\/p>\n<p>It means, had the bomb exploded on December 25, Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit would have successfully landed .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Testing showed that the a charge the size of the underwear bomb would have sprung some rivets and bulged some fuselage skin &#8211; bad for resale value, of course &#8211; but not compromised the plane&#8217;s structural integrity or blown up its fuel tanks.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news?\u00a0 Now the terrorists know this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news:\u00a0 The Eunuchbomber&#8217;s underwear bomb probably wouldn&#8217;t have destroyed the 747. A bomb on board a U.S. Christmas Day flight would have failed to bring the plane down even if it had been detonated successfully, a new test explosion suggests. A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}