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LAX dry ice bottle bomb investigation leads to arrest of airport contractor Dicarlo Bennett
LOS ANGELES An airport employee was arrested Tuesday in connection with dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport. Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was taken into custody and charged with possessing and exploding a "destructive device near an aircraft," according to a statement from police. (www.cbsnews.com) Mehr...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
These dry ice bombs are NOT totally harmless. If a piece of sharpnel from the plastic bottle would fly into your eye, or lacerate the skin of an exposed body part, it wouldn't be too funny. But that's just the R.N. in me thinkin'.
The sad story here is more about what a police state we have become. This poor, bored, minimum wage airplane cleaner has been arraigned at a bail amount ($1 million) larger than that of an armed rapist. His crime of filling 16oz water bottles with discarded frozen scraps of Co2 is little more than that of assault by water pistol. Can't airport police differentiate between those of real danger to society? . . . At most, this idiot should simply be fired and sent down the road. I sure feel much safer and protected in knowing that such a dumb bastard is wasting much needed space and resources in our overcrowded jails.
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What an idiot you must be . . .ignite a dry ice bomb? just how would you do that? Obviously you have never played with dry ice.
LOL, I was wondering the same... Dry ice that is N2 in reality. I wonder how many here know the best way to make one of these things... It is pretty easy.
Actually dry ice is just solid CO2, which is the same stuff that comes dissolved into the soda pop, that originally filled the 20oz bottles used in the bombs, to give the soda pop it's fizz, bubbles and pop. It's fitting that CO2 creates the 'pop' in this case too.
Oops.. You are correct... My bad... LOL, both are just as FLAMMABLE...
Sparkie you make me laugh so much!
Nitrogen is inert. It's most of the non-oxygen air we breath and most of the atmosphere.
CO2 is a colorless, odorless non-flammable gas.
Carbon dioxide is cold as a solid. Nitrogen is very cold as a liquid.
As a gas, they can be explosive under pressure (eg. in a pressurized gas tank). That's why people have to be careful with the tanks. If the the head gets broken off, the gas blasting out will make the tank a missile.
As far as CO2 in a plastic bottle. If you put a small cold piece of solid CO2, it'll make a lot of gas. Eventually, the pressure will built up enough to pop the plastic bottle. The same will happen if you violent shake a full bottle of soda pop, or drop it. The suddenly high pressure of CO2 will find a way out.
The solid CO2 just makes so much more gas, so more pressure and a louder pop.
Not the worst kind of explosive, actually very mild.
The problem is the location. Setting off any explosion anonymously at an airport is unwise.
Nitrogen is inert. It's most of the non-oxygen air we breath and most of the atmosphere.
CO2 is a colorless, odorless non-flammable gas.
Carbon dioxide is cold as a solid. Nitrogen is very cold as a liquid.
As a gas, they can be explosive under pressure (eg. in a pressurized gas tank). That's why people have to be careful with the tanks. If the the head gets broken off, the gas blasting out will make the tank a missile.
As far as CO2 in a plastic bottle. If you put a small cold piece of solid CO2, it'll make a lot of gas. Eventually, the pressure will built up enough to pop the plastic bottle. The same will happen if you violent shake a full bottle of soda pop, or drop it. The suddenly high pressure of CO2 will find a way out.
The solid CO2 just makes so much more gas, so more pressure and a louder pop.
Not the worst kind of explosive, actually very mild.
The problem is the location. Setting off any explosion anonymously at an airport is unwise.
Now oxygen, that's very flammable. But we put tanks of it on every plane.
Oxygen is like women. You can't live without it, but don't set it off. Can be very explosive, when not handled with care.
Oxygen is like women. You can't live without it, but don't set it off. Can be very explosive, when not handled with care.
Actually, Oxygen does not burn. But it supports the combustion of anything that will burn.
That is correct. Actualy oxygen by itself is joy flammable. It just supports the combustion of other things like flammable airplane contents.
I saw an experiment that showed that low-pressure helium (in a balloon) and low pressure oxygen (in a balloon) did not ignite when a flame was applied to the balloon. The pressure of the balloon did explode when the flame burned a hole.
In contrast a balloon filled with hydrogen gas (aka rocket fuel) created a momentarily ball of fire when a flame was applied.
So even oxygen is not flammable, even while required for flame to burn.
CO2 and nitrogen are inert, so they're not flammable either. In fact, where they displace oxygen, could act as fire suppression.
The explosiveness of the CO2 in plastic bottles comes entirely from the high pressure. Either from adding dry ice (solid CO2) or from shaking the CO2 (soda pop) that's already in there.
I saw an experiment that showed that low-pressure helium (in a balloon) and low pressure oxygen (in a balloon) did not ignite when a flame was applied to the balloon. The pressure of the balloon did explode when the flame burned a hole.
In contrast a balloon filled with hydrogen gas (aka rocket fuel) created a momentarily ball of fire when a flame was applied.
So even oxygen is not flammable, even while required for flame to burn.
CO2 and nitrogen are inert, so they're not flammable either. In fact, where they displace oxygen, could act as fire suppression.
The explosiveness of the CO2 in plastic bottles comes entirely from the high pressure. Either from adding dry ice (solid CO2) or from shaking the CO2 (soda pop) that's already in there.
* Actualy oxygen by itself is NOT flammable.
LOL... "Oxygen is like women. You can't live without it, but don't set it off. Can be very explosive, when not handled with care." you are dead on the money with that one.
I remember QANTA's accidentally put N2 into all of their 747's a number of years ago... Luckily they did not find out the hard way and no one died... But all of there planes were grounded while getting new bottles... You cannot totally empty an O2 bottle and refill it. It has a process it has to go through first and you cannot do that on the plane.
I remember QANTA's accidentally put N2 into all of their 747's a number of years ago... Luckily they did not find out the hard way and no one died... But all of there planes were grounded while getting new bottles... You cannot totally empty an O2 bottle and refill it. It has a process it has to go through first and you cannot do that on the plane.