Enough to blow up every plane 53 times over
by runchadrun
Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 08:57:04 AM PDT
As of November, 2002, Boeing had produced 10,903 commercial jets from the 707 through the 777. Airbus had produced 3,043 from the A300 through the A340. That's a total of 13,946 planes.
If 740,000 pounds of explosives are missing and it takes about a pound to blow up a plane (as happened with Pan Am 103), that means the amount of missing explosives is enough to blow up every Boeing and Airbus jet ever manufacturered 53 times over!
Now try saying that this isn't a big deal.
(edit: I did my math wrong. it's 53 times over, not 55.)
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