What if?

What if Richard Reid had succeeded in igniting his “shoe bomb” on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001? What would have happened? There is now a video out there that shows what could have been and the results are quite shocking.

The footage — obtained by the News of the World from security sources — show the shoe-bomb blast tearing a hole through the metal fuselage as if it were tin foil.

Well, that’s basically because that’s what an airplane is. It’s just aluminum wrapped around an aluminum frame. It’s really quite amazing the damn things fly successfully.

And if something explodes inside? Think Jiffy Pop.