Northwest Airlines Flight 253

Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

Had Abdulmutallab, sitting in seat 19A of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Friday from Amsterdam to Detroit, been able to set off the explosive, it might have blown a hole in the side of the airplane and caused it to crash, experts believe.

Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

Had Abdulmutallab, sitting in seat 19A of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Friday from Amsterdam to Detroit, been able to set off the explosive, it might have blown a hole in the side of the airplane and caused it to crash, experts believe.