NW253 AMS-DTW Flight Report on TV 4 MARCH 2010 - BBC 2 10pm

[XYZ]

Tonight on TV BBC 2 at 10.00 hours AMS time a report on NW253 Christmas Day flight AMS-DTW:

How Safe Are Our Skies? Detroit Flight 253
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Thursday 4 March 2010, 21:00 on BBC Two (England, Scotland, Wales only)

On Christmas Day 2009, as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 began its descent towards Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a 23-year-old man left the airplane toilet, returned to his seat and pulled a blanket across his lap. He then attempted to detonate a device containing military-grade explosive PETN, a deadly bomb designed to take the plane out of the sky. With powerful eyewitness testimony and in-depth expert analysis, this timely documentary examines how alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped under the US intelligence radar and evaded three sets of airport security.

From Abdulmutallab's student days in London, via his time in the Al Qaeda hotspot of Yemen, to the final leg of his journey on a flight bound for the USA, the timeline of this story throws up important questions. What did security services know about him before he boarded the plane? What would have happened to the 290 passengers and crew on board if the bomb had detonated successfully? What lessons have be learned? And, in the aftermath of this attack, how safe is it to fly?

[United 777]

Interesting information: the aircraft would have been able to land without any flight control problem had the explosives detonated as planned.

[Andras]

Interesting information: the aircraft would have been able to land without any flight control problem had the explosives detonated as planned.

Always very smart people able to tell when things did not happen..

Dunno who said it, but that doesn't matter. Such info is absolutly based on NOTHING. For example, the detonation could have torn a small rupture (been there for 2 years, no-one ever saw it) right where he sat under his seat, meaning the crack would aggresivly rip open and the cabin pressure was lost. Due to all the pressure release etc. the crack would have ripped and the plane broken in two halves.(snowball effect) Now that is quite a flight control problem! All because of a small explosion the size of a fart.