Originally Posted by
SMF TSO
I never said that the biggest threat to aviation is frozen nitroglycerine. I merely mentioned it as a reason why FREEZING LIQUIDS IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO PROVE THEY ARE HARMLESS.
Keeping solids solid is not sufficient to prove they are harmless. So what?
Frozen water will be in the process of melting, so it will be at 0°C. Nitroglycerin melts at 13°C. That being said, nitroglycerin mixed with other compounds can have a lower melting point. However, do you guys have ETD machines? Don't they detect nitroglycerin?
I still fail to understand the logic here. Dynamite, TNT, and many other explosives that are far more dangerous to aircraft (by merit being safe to transport) are solid, yet the TSA allows solids. Why? There is no way to differentiate between many solid explosives and [insert benign material here]. Of course this ignores ETD, which the TSA seems to ignore for liquids.