Originally Posted by
CBM
And just to lower the tone completely there is:
"If it flies, floats or f....., it's cheaper by the hour!"
Wandering back towards the topic, forty years ago a Cathay Pacific 707 was brought down over Vietnam on a flight from Bangkok to HK by a bomb. A Thai policeman had insured his mistress's life, offered her the holiday of a lifetime,explained to her that he found that he was too busy to come with them but would join them a couple of days later, and bought her and their son tickets to Hong Kong... with a bomb in her handbag....
The policeman was found and identified, but, Thailand being Thailand, he was never arrested and charged for the murder of all on board.
Which is why Cathay, like El Al, had their own scanners at airports long before "9/11".