Petn Bomb

Petn Bomb:Terrorists have a new weapon of choice, an undetectable bomb that even the most advanced scanners can’t pick up. It is a military grade explosive known as PETN, and it’s powerful enough to blow up a car with just a 100 grams. It is also the same type of explosive that terrorists like the Shoe-Bomber attempted to use, and the same one that the infamous Christmas flight bomber failed to use on his flight to Detroit.

What is so appealing about this explosive to terrorists is that it is very small, yet powerful for its size, it’s also undetectable by metal detectors, and it can be hidden on the body. Even with the Millimeter Wave Screening scanner (a new scanner used in some airports that takes an X-Ray like picture of the body), the bombs were not detected.

This experience shows us that the government and airports have to step up their security and find a new way to screen passengers for these types of explosives. Or at the very least, start using more of the methods of screening passengers to prevent terrorists from sneaking explosives onto the planes.

Petn Wiki,PETN

Petn Wiki:The substance used in the recent Flight 253 Detroit terrorist attack has been identified as PETN Explosive. PETN is a highly explosive substance that can be transported in many different ways, like soft plastic or latex container.

Officials said something like a condom could have been used to contain the PETN substance by the Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

PETN Defined According to Wiki:
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, also known as corpent, pentrite, or rarely and primarily in German as nitropenta or pentrit), is one of the most powerful high explosives known.

Penthrite was first synthesized in 1891 by Tollens and Wiegand by nitration of pentaerythritol. In 1912, after being patented by the German government, the production ofPETN started. PETN was used by the German Army in World War I. PETN is also one of the ingredients in Semtex plastic explosive.