Foiled Shoe Bombing of AA 63
Disrupted Suicide Attack| Event Details | |||
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 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda | |
| Location | North Atlantic Ocean | |
| Time | Dec. 22, 2001 | |
| Participants | Richard Reid (Attacker) 1, Sajid Badat (Facilitator) 1, Ali Abdulaziz Ali (Facilitator) 1, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Operational Commander) 1 | |
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| Reliable | Al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid snuck explosives onto American Airlines Flight 63, a Boeing 767 en route from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris to Miami, Florida, in an attempt to destroy the plane mid-flight. During the flight, a flight attendant saw him trying to light a match on his shoe and tried to stop him. Ried fought, and several passengers and crew members eventually disabled him. The plane diverted to Boston with a fighter escort and Reid was arrested. | |
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| 1"Detainee Biographies," press release, Director of National Intelligence, Sept. 6, 2006. | |||
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