christmas day. it was on a flight en route to detroit from amsterdam. as that flight approached detroit, a young man attempted to set off a bomb he had stuffed into his underwear. that bomb did not work. didn't bring down the plane. it did, however, manage to give him burns on his inner thighs. but that underwear bomber, that was the first post-9/11 attack inside the united states by an al qaeda affiliate. that was december 2009. nine months later in september 20 so a u.p.s. cargo plane was flying from dubai to germany when 22 minutes into that flight at 32,000 feet a fire suddenly ignited on board that cargo plane. the crew tried to turn back to dubai. they told air traffic control the cockpit was filling with so much smoke, they could no longer see inside that plane. but they weren't able to turn back and that u.p.s. cargo plane crashed, both pilots died. and nobody really ever knew why it had happened. but then the following month, in