In a video blog I saw today on the net, an airline Captain said: "if a bomb is found on board in-flight, pilots are trained to relocate it someplace where it would do the least damage" without further details as to what place standard operating procedures suggest in this case.
Where should the pilot put the bomb to have the best chances of limiting the detonation damage and rescuing the plane ?
We covered that stuff during recurrent training and for the CRJ Regional Jets we were told to place it in the forward galley in front of the service door (opposite the main door) and cover with with as much weighty stuff as possible, wet blankets, heavy coats, and such.
You had the mass of the galley to protect the flight deck to some degree, and in theory the explosion would blow out the service door, hopefully leaving the structural frame surround intact, so that overall, it would have the least impact structurally for the fuselage as a load bearing tube with the peak stress just ahead and behind the wings.
In theory... nobody actually believed it would save the plane unless it was fairly small device, but as a calculated strategy to make the best of a hopeless situation, it made sense.
Don't know about other jets, but I would expect that the overall logic is similar.
