Dutch government to release results of probe into failed Christmas Day airline terror attack

Dutch probe into airline terror attack released

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government is releasing results of its investigation into the failed Christmas Day terror attack on a U.S.-bound airliner that took off from Amsterdam.

Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst is holding a press conference Wednesday to outline a probe into how 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab managed to board the Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

A preliminary Dutch investigation has said that all security checks were correctly carried out in Amsterdam before the flight left and American authorities cleared the passenger list that included Abdulmutallab’s name.

Abdulmutallab smuggled explosives onto the plane but failed to successfully detonate them.