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Given the reality of the Israeli pager attack using explosives planted in electronic devices, I wonder how safe anyone should feel flying on planes these days.
by photochemsyn 2y ago
Given the reality of the Israeli pager attack using explosives planted in electronic devices, I wonder how safe anyone should feel flying on planes these days. Is airport security going to even allow electronic devices on planes in the future because of that event? What happens if a hole is blown in a pressurized cabin by such means? Supply chains are now pretty globalized and malicious actions can take place at many points in those supply chain.
- rtkwe 2y agoLosing pressurization even suddenly isn't a huge deal by itself. The masks will drop and the plane will go to below 10000 feet but it's unlikely to cause it to crash. There's not enough explosives in the pager bombs to cause catastrophic damage to the airframe or controls. As a side note it's unclear if it would even trigger in the air because afaik the trigger was immediate when the signal was sent and the pagers shouldn't have signal at altitude just like a cell phone.
- rlt 2y agoThere are other ways to trigger it, e.x. barometric pressure