The man accused of trying to blow up a plane with explosives hidden in his underwear in 2009 pleaded guilty Wednesday and said the U.S. should “be warned.” Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab stands accused of trying to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas Day, 2009. Abdulmutallab told a [...]

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Federal agents are working a new lead and looking at a new suspect in the infamous 1971 hijacking known as the “D.B. Cooper” case. Almost 40 years ago, a man calling himself Dan Cooper leaped out the back of Northwest Orient Flight 305, somewhere in between Seattle, Washington and Reno, Nevada, carrying a parachute and about $200,000 [...]

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The hero of the Northwest Airlines flight 253 terrorist attack on Christmas Day has been identified.  He is Jasper Schuringa, a director from Amsterdam. He jumped on top of suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab when he set off a small explosive on the plane. Schuringa not only swiped the burning device from Mutallab, but [...]

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