whats and why is the gel substance banned in flights lately?

Question

gel and other liquid substance in airplanes

Answer 1

Every newscast I saw on the recent foiling of the terrorist plot in London explained that the parties involved used gel substances as one ingredient for bomb making that they planned to utilize.

Substances that would individually be harmless and could be taken past airport security with no problem, were to be combined once the plane was in the air to create a bomb. The plan had been to bring several planes down that way at the same time.

For international safety, some of these normally innocent substances have been banned, in an effort to avoid such an occurrence.

Answer 2

There was an incident a few days ago where some terrorists were boarding a plane from London to NY and they had created some bombs from a liquid substance. THey were passing this liquid substance as bottles of water I believe (not sure on that part) but they got caught and now that is why any liquid or gel susbstance is not being allowed on the plane.

Answer 3

Because people tried to bring liquid explosives in a Hair Gel bottle on a plane

Answer 4

Because the suspected terrorist bombers from the UK, who wanted to blow up planes last week, where planning to use liquid explosives. There is suspicion that there are still other would be bombers out there, and therefor, all liquids, that could possibly be explosive are banned.
The only exception is baby milk, which the mother must sip from before boarding, to prove it's authenticity.

Answer 5

It is said that they can be used to make bombs while in mid-flight.