Crump says a rectal bomb wouldn’t bring down a plane either. “At most, you’d blow the seat apart.” I showed him a Fox News piece that quoted unnamed explosives experts saying that a body bomb containing as little as five ounces of PETN could “blow a considerable hole” in an airline’s skin, causing it to crash. “Total codswallop,” said Crump. As fans of the TV program MythBusters
