there s still folks around that would love to help with this. they ve done it before. they know how to reassemble aircraft. and then you have the arrows that point to that fracture point. from that point, that s where you re going to find the fracture points that lead the investigators. bob, you talk about this not having a very large device and it could have been a pound or less. when you see the detail three miles away from a big portion of the debris field, a huge space we re talking about, how difficult would it be to find pieces of the device itself? would they have a chance at doing that? there are chances they won t find the initiator. some of the wire can be drawn with a pen. it s very sophisticated, some of these bombs. very small barometric switch would be blown up in the explosion. the detonator, of course, is
of us that don t know much about explosives. anderson, it s very easy, this technology is old but reliable. it worked on several attacks in the 70s, the bombs went off. you know, the dead nay tors can be smuggled on. that s always the hardest part with the underwear bomber from amsterdam. they were lucky that didn t go off. the detonator was absorbed as sweat and that s why it didn t detona detonate. it s the technology, i don t think we ve really been able to defeat. i mean, you me, it s not just smuggling an employee of the airport. anybody can walk near an airplane can put something on a wing and the rest of it. but more than that are x-ray machines cannot detect a very sophisticated device with or without a barometric switch.
something on a wing and the rest of it. but more than that are x-ray machines cannot detect a very sophisticated device with or without a barometric switch. i mean, they can be hidden. the explosives can be made into sculptures and ghazed over. it can look like anything. or toner cartridge. this is what has us scared. it s not just sharm el-sheikh. our security in this country, tsa can be beaten. and bob, you re saying the actual detonator, the switch itself wouldn t show up in an x-ray or just wouldn t be identifiable? it wouldn t be identifiable. i mean, you could hide it. they are very small. you can hide it in an iphone and a plastic detonator in the iphone as well. and people can guns on airplanes and they are not seen by tsa. they are doing the best they can but just the technology and airplanes are so vulnerable to a