Russia plane crash: IS publishes 'improvised bomb' photo

[Little Tich]

Source: BBC

Islamic State's magazine has published a photo of what it claims was the improvised bomb that brought down the Russian airliner in Egypt last month.

The picture in Dabiq shows a Schweppes Gold soda can and what appears to be a detonator and a switch.

No explanation is offered and security experts told the BBC it was not clear how the device would have worked.

IS-linked Sinai Peninsula group says it carried out the attack, which killed 224 people.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34861346

[geomon666]

1. They don't know how it would work?

It seems pretty obvious to me. You wire the switch to the explosive, which is then hidden in the can. When the time is right you hit the switch. I'm wondering what the explosive was.

[Quackers]

2. Plastic explosive

C-4, comp B, or something similar. The metal looking rod is a detonator cap and the toggle switch was used to arm it probably with a 9-volt battery as the power supply.

[Orrex]

4. Maybe the question is...

Since the can is intact, how could it be the housing for a 1 kg TNT explosion?

I mean, if you set off a firecracker in a soda can, there's a good chance it will blow out the sides, so...

[ericson00]

3. savages. The end.

civilized people must see ISIS for the savages they are. And yes, sometimes there are indeed "savages."

[Sunlei]

5. to small and in the front? No, there was that flash of light & the back half of the plane burned?

The airspeed dropped to almost nothing in a second. It was by/in the fuel lines and that fuel made it a much larger 'bomb'.