Passengers of Northwestern flight 253 received a special gift, on Christmas day 2009, when the plane they occupied landed safely after an attempted bombing aboard the flight. The flight was traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit. The passengers were prepared for a safe landing when a loud pop was heard aboard the plane, followed by smoke and fire.
The fire is said to have ignited in the lap of 23 year old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria. A witness says Umar was holding some kind of device and there was liquid dripping, from under the suspects seat, where two flight pillows lay. The witness and passenger, Jasper Schuringa, who was sitting on the opposite side of the plane, jumped over the middle rows in order restrain Umar and help put out the fire. He sustained some burns to his right hand.
The suspect was taken into custody in Detroit and is being treated for second and third degree burns. Umar is reportedly educated, wealthy and from a prominent family in Nigeria, but is said to be on a "watch list" in the US for his extremist views.
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