How Safe Are Our Skies? Detroit Flight 253

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2:35 PM to 3:50 PM

Friday 7 February

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On Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year-old man tried to detonate a bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. This documentary examines how suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped under the US intelligence radar and evaded three sets of airport security. Examining his student days in London and his time in the al-Qaeda hotspot of Yemen, the programme asks what security services knew about him before he boarded the plane, what lessons have been learned, and considers the implications for air travel