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TATP I understand is very volatile and quite capable of taking severely damaging an airliner

TATP and the dimer DADP are not liquids, however when you make it you use two liquids and one liquid catalyst, and time. It takes several steps to produce it and it requires several hours! I can not see any possible way that anybody can produce an effective amount of TATP on an airplaine, without being stopped in time. It is not just mixing some liquids and then it is a bang. If they do that the mixing bottle will break due to the production of hugh amounts of gas and the explosion would stop, with just a fraction of TATP produced and exploded. I do not think that sufficient amounts for the intended effect could be produced in that way.

On the other hand they could have planned to have a device for TATP on the airplane, like Richard Reid, but that is another story.

I didn't say they were going ot make TATP on the plane. When I talked of two parts was earlier, before I knew that the substance was TATP. As for it being a solid, yes, it is in the form of crystals, however the terrorists were going to make a slurry out of it and put it into the false bottoms of sport drinks, the slurry would have been dyed to the exact color of the drink. Don't know the brand of drink.

TATP has been the favorite explosive of these terrorists, using it on 7/7, the shoe bomber used it, and, I believe, it was what the muslims used in Madrid.