HISTORY In 2009, A Nigerian man attempted to blow up a Northwest Flight.
6 years ago today, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 an international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was the target of a failed al-Qaeda bombing attempt on Christmas Day. The bomber in the Christmas Day bombing attempt was 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man who had concealed plastic explosives in his underwear but failed to detonate…