CotW:A Disaster Movie in Every Sense of the Word (Or Tim Applies Very Too Indepth An Analysis to 2012)

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While 2012 came out in theatres way back in November, it just arrived on DVD this Tuesday and that made me think it was the perfect time to revisit it. And by revisit, I mean offer commentary on. And my commentary begins like this “Fuck you, 2012, fuck you very much.”

Oh, Spoiler Warnings, by the by.

And occasional profanity, if you couldn’t guess.

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Christmas bomb plot was doomed to fail; plane would have landed safely

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A test explosion for a BBC documentary suggests that the “underpants bomber” would have failed to bring down Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009, even if he’d managed to detonate his trousers. Likely death toll: 2, namely the bomber and the unlucky soul sitting next to him.

A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of smuggling on board, failed to burst the fuselage. …

Captain J Joseph, an air accident investigator, and [Dr John Wyatt, an international terrorism and explosives adviser to the UN] both concluded that the quantity of explosive used was nowhere near enough needed to rupture the skin of a passenger plane. …

‘I’m very confident that the flight crew could have taken this aeroplane without any incident at all and get it on the ground safely.’

However, the experts said that the death of the suspected bomber and the passenger beside him would have been traumatic for passengers.

‘It would have been quite horrific. Obviously the blast itself would cause eardrum rupture,’ Dr Wyatt added.

Captain Joseph said the noise and the smoke would have been awful, ‘not to mention the parts of the bodies that were disintegrated as part of the explosion’.

But Captain Joseph said the experiment could help to put air travellers at ease: ‘I think this should be a confidence-builder for passengers.’