Airline bombings and

foiled plots since 9/11

Dec 22, 2001:

“Shoe

bomber” Richard Reid

caught trying to blow up

American Airlines

Flight 63 from Paris to

Miami with explosives

hidden in his shoes

Aug 24, 2004:

Two female

Chechen suicide bombers use

RDX to cause simultaneous explosions in separate

Russian passenger jets. Ninety people killed

Aug 10, 2006:

British officials foil plot to blow up

multiple transatlantic aircraft with liquid explosives

hidden in soft-drink bottles. Rules restricting liquids

allowed through airport security introduced

Dec 25, 2009: Umar

Faruk Abdulmutallab tries

to detonate device hidden

in his underwear on board

Northwest Flight 253 from

Amsterdam to Detroit.

Device fail to detonate fully

Oct 29, 2010:

Two explosive devices packed

in modified printer cartridges found on separate

cargo planes bound from Yemen to U.S. Al Qaeda

in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claims responsibility

May 8, 2012:

U.S. officials foil AQAP plot in

Yemen to detonate upgraded version of failed

2009 “underwear bomb”

Oct 31, 2015: Russian A321 airliner crashes

in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people

on board. U.S. and UK intelligence suggest

bomb could have brought down plane

Source: Transport Security Administration

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