Friday, December 25, 2009

Terrorist Attempt on Northwest Plane

Details still emerging. 

A Northwest Airlines passenger landing in Detroit on Friday tried to blow up the flight but the explosive device failed, two U.S. national security officials said.

The passenger, who was traveling on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam, was not identified. He was being questioned Friday evening, according to one of the officials, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.

The motive of the Christmas Day attack was not immediately clear.

“He appears to have had some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite,” said one of the U.S. officials.

An update:

A Nigerian man claiming ties to al-Qaida tried to light a powder aboard a commercial jetliner before it landed Friday in Detroit in what senior U.S. officials called an attempted act of terrorism.

“He appears to have had some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite,” a senior U.S. official told NBC News. Other officials said the explosive device was a mixture of powder and liquid, which failed when the passenger tried to detonate it during the plane’s descent into Detroit International Airport.

Two people noticed the attempted attack, and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him, an airline official told NBC News. The man was being treated at the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, officials said.

There are heroes among us.

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1910 hrs
Culture + Law

  1. Move along here people.  Nothing to see. 

    Simply a friendly, peace loving Muslim who wanted to bring some fireworks over to use with his friends in Detroit for a New Year’s celebration next week. 

    Hopefully Eric Holder can bring to justice that passenger who attacked him.  Surely it was a hate crime.

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