[b]A 23-year-old Nigerian man tried to light a powdery substance aboard a Northwest Airlines flight before landing in Detroit on Friday, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News.
Two people noticed the attempt and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him, an airline official told NBC News.
The man is being treated at the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, officials said.
The man told investigators that he wanted to set off a bomb over the United States, and the incident is being handled as a possibile terrorism attack by both law enforcement and intelligence agencies, senior counterterrorism officials said.
The man was subdued by the flight crew of Flight 253 from Amsterdam, one counterterrorism official said. The official said the man left Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, then boarded the Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam on Friday.
The Transportation Security Administration issued a statement reading, in part: “All passengers have deplaned and out of an abundance of caution, the plane was moved to a remote area where the plane and all baggage are currently being rescreened. A passenger is in custody, and passengers are being interviewed.”
Earlier Friday a Delta Airlines official said the incident began when a passenger set off firecrackers aboard the plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, causing minor injuries aboard the Airbus 330 carrying 278 passengers. (Delta and Northwest have merged.)[/b]


Source - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34592031/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

what was his plan?

i no sabi. dem FBI are treating it as a terrorist attack. another dent to madam rebranding's agenda.

0hsisi:

what was his plan?

to blow banger

WASHINGTON – U.S. officials say[b] a Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria said he was acting on behalf of al-Qaida [/b] when he tried to blow up a flight Friday as it landed in Detroit.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. 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.





http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091225/ap_on_go_ot/us_airliner_disturbance

So abuzola has finally decided to go along with this thing?

I said I don't believe that man is a Nigerian, simply because no average Nigerian man will get payed to kill himself. We a wiser than that i beg.

100% Nigerien