Originally Posted by
gsoltso
Shoe bombing is viable, bad luck and basic misunderstanding of weather caused the shoe bomb to fail, not the heroic actions of a passenger or FAM (not that dealing him the beat down of his life was not heroic!). It is a viable threat and you can say it isn't til you are blue in the face and it won't matter.
And yet, absolutely no airplanes have been brought down by shoe bombs since Richard Reid's failed attempt years ago, either before or since TSA made the shoe carnival mandatory or in any of the countries without the mandatory shoe carnival.