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Security lines at american airports. what kind of bomb could have been used and what kind of damage could even a small bomb do? we went to the experts to find out. >> reporter: that explosion a half pound of dynamite, a conventional explosive mainly used in industrial settings. it packs a massive wallop. the explosion moving about 19,000 feet per second. it could easily cripple a passenger aircraft. seems too simple. >> yeah, it is. well, when the bad guys make the improvised ones, its the same ...

This is cnn breaking news -- >> breaking news this hour. cnn has learned that egyptian security officials have interviewed and investigated each person who serviced the russian plane before it took off from the sharm el sheik airport and then broke apart in flight. the source says all airport cameras, sensors and related information were confiscated, even before the crash was public. here in the united states, intelligence sources are telling us that they are sharing more detailed scenarios abou...

>> even more powerful than diet mite. how many feet per second? >> 30,000. >> thats just over a half pound of c4, a plastic explosive that is tough to go out and buy in the united states, but in some countries a similar explosive can be bought on the black market. >> joining me to discuss this is safety analyst david suz si, a former safety inspector. this video is eyebrow raise whg you see how small this is, the power thats in something this small. how sophisticate rd devices like this. how eas...

The beginnings tracked by forensic bomb expert thomas anthony. >> this is a classic c-4 explosion? >> it is. less push and more sort of force like that. we have less residue than a low explosive. >> starting with a c-4 bomb, a type of plastic explosive, the civil aviation security measure caulk wauks ugh floug the impact of several types of bombs and the telltale signs they leave behind. >> the residue of the black powder coming from to a central point, look at the edges here. the edges in the b...

Isis chatter, so to speak. we dont know if that cell phone conversation, online postings, isis well-known for using very secure chat rooms. the u.s. monitors isis communications secretly covertly as much as it can and it does appear that isis chatter about this, a claim of responsibility not a public claim, but some other sort of more covert claim in their chatter is at least a key part of what captured the u.s. attention. >> okay. so this idea that someone at the airport, to use the exact words...

If in fact, isis brought down metrojet flight 9268 it would be a success in a string of failures and close calls. more on the effort to bring down planes by randi kaye. >> reporter: december 22nd, 2001, just two months after the 9/11 attacks, american airlines flight 63 with 197 passengers and crew suddenly in trouble. passenger richard reid was attempting to detonate a plastic explosive called petn he concealed inside his shoes. passengers pounced and the flight headed from paris to miami was s...

Down the jet, up would be a long string of close calls. more on the effort to bring down planes by randi kaye. >> reporter: december 22nd, 2001, two months of the 9/11 attacks, american airlines flight 63 with 197 passengers and crew suddenly in trouble. passenger richard reid was attempting to detonate a plastic explosive. he concealed inside his shoes. passengers pounced and the flight headed from paris to miami was safely escorted by fighter jets to bostons logan airport. reid is a british ci...

Them. the pressure that the cooker can withstand is stamped into the metal. theres no question they were in pressure cookers and the fbi has acknowledged that. theyve also acknowledged that the bombs had ball bearings and nail to further amplify the destructive power and try to inflict maximum casualties and in terms of what made them go, thats believed to be smokeless powdered gun powder in essence and the mere fact there was smoke you could see after the blast, smokeless powder with smoke, jus...

The brand name is on one of them. the pressure that the cooker can withstand is stamped into the metal. theres no question they were in pressure cookers and the fbi has acknowledged that. theyve also acknowledged that the bombs had ball bearings and nail to further amplify the destructive power and try to inflict maximum casualties and in terms of what made them go, thats believed to be smokeless powdered gun powder in essence and the mere fact there was smoke you could see after the blast, smok...

More than nine months. some more than a year. while nearly 300 airports across the country go unprotected by the newest, best bomb-scanning technology. >> there are airports around america that really dont realize that in dallas, texas, there are huge amounts of this equipment sitting in excess. >> reporter: a congressional investigation concludes that the tsa is not only wasting $184 million by not deploying security equipment, it is warehousing the one device that can actually detect a nonmeta...