Editing Richard Reid (section)

==Bombing attempt on American Airlines Flight 63==
{{Main|American Airlines Flight 63 (2001)}}
[[File:Richard Reid's Shoes.jpg|left|thumb|The shoes Reid tried to detonate during the flight.]]
On 22 December 2001, a passenger on Flight 63 from Paris to Miami complained of the smell of smoke in the cabin shortly after a meal service. One flight attendant, Hermis Moutardier, thinking she smelled a burnt match, walked along the aisles of the plane, trying to find the source. She found Reid, who was sitting alone near a window, attempting to light a match. Moutardier warned him that smoking was not allowed onboard the aircraft. Reid promised to stop.<ref name="time 09-01-02" />

A few minutes later, Moutardier found Reid leaned over in his seat. After she asked him what he was doing, Reid grabbed her, revealing one shoe in his lap, a fuse leading into the shoe, and a lit match. Several passengers worked together to subdue the {{nowrap|6-foot}} {{nowrap|4-inch}} ({{cvt|76|in|cm|disp=out}}) tall, {{nowrap|215-pound}} ({{cvt|215|lb|adj=on|disp=out}}) Reid. They restrained him using plastic handcuffs, seatbelt extensions, leather waist belts and headphone cords. An off-duty doctor on board administered a [[tranquilizer]] to him, which he found in the emergency medical kit of the airliner.<ref name="time 09-01-02">{{cite magazine |last=Thomas |first=Cathy Booth |date=1 September 2002 |title=Courage in the Air |url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020909/aattendants.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604162640/http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020909/aattendants.html |archive-date=4 June 2010 |access-date=28 December 2009}}</ref> The flight was immediately diverted to [[Logan International Airport]] in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, the closest airport in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Reid_Complaint.pdf |title=U.S. v. Reid Complaint |via=[[Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation]] |access-date=18 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301162226/http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Reid_Complaint.pdf |archive-date=1 March 2012}}</ref>

The explosive apparently did not detonate due to the delay in the departure of Reid's flight. The rainy weather, along with Reid's foot perspiration, made the fuse too damp to ignite.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opensourcesinfo.org/journal/2005/7/25/terrorist-use-of-tatp-explosive.html |title=Terrorist Use Of TATP Explosive |publisher=Opensourcesinfo.org |date=25 July 2005 |access-date=18 January 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717041411/http://www.opensourcesinfo.org/journal/2005/7/25/terrorist-use-of-tatp-explosive.html |archive-date=17 July 2010}}</ref>