Saturday, December 26, 2009

Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane

This whole thing sounds like it would have made a great movie: 

“An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke — sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said.”

Go here to read the rest.

AP – This picture provided by J.P. Karas shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving.

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