Fireworks on an airliner isn’t a good idea.

CNN is reporting that a passenger on a flight between Amsterdam and Detroit set off fireworks during the flight resulting in at least one passenger going to a hospital.  The story is HERE.

Update 01:  Government officials are now calling this incident an terrorist attempt.  Apparently a Nigerian national set off an explosive device rather than fireworks in an attempt to blow up the phone.  Read the update HERE.

Update 02:  This Nigerian apparently used PETN, an explosive used as a “booster” for other explosives and also what was used by terrorist Richard Reid in his attempt to bring down an airliner traveling from Paris to Miami.  He was in possession of only a quantity small enough to be in a syringe.  My guess is his carried it in a small carry-on container and extracted it with the syringe.   You can read the criminal complaint filed against him HERE.

Yeah.  Say goodbye to any carryon liquids.

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