It could still pull off an attack that would kill hundreds, as the most recent plot to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009 attests.

他们仍能实施造成上百人死亡的袭击，就像他们最近一次被证实的在去年圣诞节密谋炸毁西北航空253航班的尝试。

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On Christmas Day, Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up the Northwest Airlines flight he was sitting on as it approached Detroit Metro Airport.

去年圣诞节当天，一名名叫阿卜杜勒?穆塔拉布的尼日利亚男子搭乘美国西北航空公司的航班飞往底特律途中企图炸机未遂。

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Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit say just as the plane was getting ready to land there was a loud pop, and then panic.

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On Saturday,President Obama said an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently trained and equipped the Nigerian man accused in the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.

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After arriving in Amsterdam, AbdulMutallab boarded the Northwest Airlines flight to the United States.

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In 1987, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while taking off from Detroit.

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Coach reservations, later upgraded to first class, on the Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit were made in the name of Mr. and Mrs.

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