By which time you’d be like a rasher of crispy bacon.

she tried to rush the cockpit and threatened to kill people, apparently.

Sort of person you’d want off the plane sharpish, even if you were a bit late to where you wanted to go.

Woman arrested after ‘trying to rush cockpit’ on Jet2 plane forcing RAF jets to intercept

Your common all garden improvised terrorist thermonuclear device

Sorry, do what?

I’ve never heard of an improvised terrorist before.

What is it and why would they need the whole of a garden? Are they really common?

Serious answer,

A small, as in smallest possible, nuke, there was a survivor of Hiroshima somewhat incredibly just 300m from the centre of the blast, protected by the massive concrete bank building, but mostly anything within a couple of km is dead, at 20 miles you’d almost certainly survive but would want to leave the area for a while.

The supersize Russian efforts, you’d be instant charcoal.

Fortunately, they’ve been dismantled, I believe, mainly because it’s easy to fly a small one into “the right place” now that guidance systems are what they are. And small ones are cheaper.

Also, nobody improvises a nuclear weapon. It’s not like you just knock one up from stuff lying about the place like MacGyver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions

nobody improvises a nuclear weapon

Yeah I do know that … but my question was a bit silly so I just rolled with it.

But thanks for your answer. Good to know we may stand half a chance 20 mile away. We are however, down wind … 🙁

🙂

hope for a nice calm day?

Looks like the passenger is getting an £85k bill…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-49017838

Good. 🙂

Hahahahaha.

Thing is, £2k of it was for the typhoons, the other £83k was because she had to reprint her lost boarding pass when she got to Stanstead.

My coat? Certainly, over there is it?

Its a shame the MoD is unlikely to bill her for the cost of the two Typhoons being sent up.

Per hour operating costs are approximately £50-60k per aircraft!

That’ll take a while to pay off on what Costa Coffee pay her.

I like how the BBC don’t name her, instead opting for “a woman” whereas Metro plaster her face all over the page. At least if I see her pop up on Tinder I know which way to swipe.

Airline sends £85,000 bill to woman who tried to open emergency doors mid-flight