Posted on 12/25/2009 3:40:26 PM PST by tobyhill
A man reportedly set off firecrackers on Delta Flight 253 that was carrying 278 passengers to Detroit from Amsterdam.
"The president was notified of the incident this morning between 9:00 and 9:30 Hawaii time by the president's military aide," White House spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
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Firecracker story is a lie! Passenger was on “NO FLY” list .. but they still let the guy on the plane!
Houston paper said:
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said a Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria said he was acting on behalf of al-Qaida when he tried to blow up a flight Friday as it landed in Detroit. And a White House official called the Christmas incident an attempted act of terrorism.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.
One of the U.S. intelligence officials said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it.
The passenger was being questioned Friday evening. “He appears to have had some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite,” said one of the U.S. officials.
Authorities initially believed the passenger had set off firecrackers that caused some minor injuries.
Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Susan Elliott said the passenger was subdued immediately. She had no details on the injuries. Delta and Northwest have merged.
One passenger from the flight was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, hospital spokeswoman Tracy Justice said. She didn’t know the person’s condition, or whether the person was a man or woman. She referred all inquiries to the FBI.
An FBI spokeswoman in Detroit said the incident is being investigated. It came just as the flight, an Airbus 330 carrying 278 passengers, was arriving in Detroit from Amsterdam. “Next thing you know, there was a lot of panic,” he said.
Rich Griffith, a passenger from Pontiac, said he was seated too far in the back to see what had happened. But he said he didn’t mind being detained on the plane for several hours.
Never forget! I never will. This Bozo in OUR HOUSE sure doesn’t give off any vibes of keeping us safe. Know your enemies.
... and this one, more detail. Stay well.
Ol’ Abdul just earned himself the top slot on barry’s coffee klatch list.....
What he’s monitoring closely is the security of the sealed vault which contains his long form BC.
yes the trial is a joke but watch Gibbs spin this!
With any justice he'll wind up like Ceausescu.
Explosives generally need a blasting cap or primer to set them off. Blasting caps look a lot like firecrackers, and setting one off would sound like one as well. It may be that this guy screwed up and had his blasting cap go off before he had it embedded in the explosive charge.
Surf’s up, man...
present
Hope he drowns.
Early reports say that the deoce was strapped to his leg, and that it contained both a solid and a liquid.
It may be that he lit the thing but that the scuffle he had with the heroic passenger actually broke open the container
on his leg, thereby innitiating a flash burn of the explosive material rather than an explosion inside the containment of the device.What the pop could have been is the triggering part of the device which failed to explode the deice due to leakage, and a further flash burn as the wrestling spread the material around.
Both the perp and the hero were burned.Heros name not released. That bothers me.
Where did you see that he was on the no-fly list?
What’s he gonna do if not just monitor the situation? Keep his useless ass out of the way.
He may be protecting his country. This DIDN’T happen in Kenya.
Because you’re supposed to remember that Bambam is in CHARGE!
By next year, it will all be forgotten.
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