American Airlines Flight 63
| American Airlines Flight 63 | |
|---|---|
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Attempted attack |
| place | Atlantic Ocean |
| date | December 22, 2001 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 767-300 |
| operator | American Airlines |
| Departure airport | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport , Paris |
| Destination airport | Miami International Airport , Miami |
| Passengers | 183 |
| crew | 14th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On the American Airlines Flight 63 , a scheduled flight of American Airlines from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Miami International Airport , took place on 22 December 2001 an attempted terrorist attack. During the flight, Richard Reid , who became known in the media as a shoe bomber, tried to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes on board the Boeing 767-300, which was occupied by 197 people .
incident
About two hours after take-off from Paris, a flight attendant spotted a passenger (Richard Reid, the assassin) handling matches and apparently trying to set off an explosive charge in one of his shoes. When she tried to prevent Reid from doing this, he defended himself. The flight attendant called for help, whereupon one of her colleagues and several passengers managed to overpower Reid in a scuffle. Passengers and crew handcuffed Reid to a seat and a doctor on board gave him a sedative .
Following the incident, the flight was diverted to Logan International Airport in Boston , where Reid was arrested.
examination
Investigations by the FBI showed that the shoes each contained approx. 100 grams of the plastic explosive nitropenta and the initial explosive acetone peroxide . The latter should enable ignition by a fuse .
On December 21, 2001, Reid had already entered Charles de Gaulle Airport to board an American Airlines scheduled flight to Miami. He aroused the suspicion of the security guards because of his unkempt appearance, the fact that he paid for his ticket in cash, without a return flight and without luggage. When asked, he made himself conspicuous and they called the police. There followed two hours of interrogation, but the suspicion against him could not be substantiated, he was released and received a replacement ticket.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cathy Booth Thomas: Courage in the Air. In: TIME . September 1, 2002, archived from the original on May 22, 2011 ; accessed on January 2, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Background: The «shoe bomber» Richard Reid. (No longer available online.) In: Die Welt Online . December 27, 2009, archived from the original on September 26, 2009 ; Retrieved January 2, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Shoe bomb suspect 'did not act alone'. In: BBC News . January 25, 2002, accessed January 2, 2010 .
- ↑ Elaine Shannon: THE EXPLOSIVES: Who Built Reid's Shoes? In: TIME . February 25, 2002, accessed January 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Danny Kringiel: Qaeda terrorist Richard Reid: The man who took off our shoes. In: Spiegel Online . January 30, 2013, accessed June 10, 2018 .
