This is one a not an artificial fake or pyrotechnically organized explosion. It is a real liquid bomb made to a similar recipe of that planned by the men convicted of attemping to blowup commercial airliners.
This shoot was for BBC and American news networks. The following week we co-ordinated another shoot using the front half of the aircraft for ITV and American news networks
The camera housing was a custom made rig digital slo mo cameras were Photrons
This was a one shot gig.