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An airplane in the USA has a bomb attack. The flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan was 20 minutes away from . It had 278 passengers and 11 aboard. The was a 23-year-old Nigerian man called Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab. He told police he was working for Al Qaeda. Mr. Abdulmutallab tried to make a bomb on the airplane with a of powder and liquid . His bomb exploded but did not a lot of . Instead, he badly one of his legs. Flight attendants quickly the fire out.

Airports and around the world are now on alert. Security experts believe there will be more to blow up airplanes. Al Qaeda has a of attacking flights to and in the USA. The were the 9-11 attacks in 2001. Since then, there have been several near . Also in 2001, Briton Richard Reid tried to blow up a Paris-Miami flight using explosives in his shoes. He was the “shoe bomber”. In 2006, police in Britain a plan to bomb transatlantic flights using liquid bombs as soft drinks.