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If in fact, isis brought down metrojet flight 9268 it would be a success in a string of failures and close calls. more on the effort to bring down planes by randi kaye. >> reporter: december 22nd, 2001, just two months after the 9/11 attacks, american airlines flight 63 with 197 passengers and crew suddenly in trouble. passenger richard reid was attempting to detonate a plastic explosive called petn he concealed inside his shoes. passengers pounced and the flight headed from paris to miami was safely escorted by fighter jets to boston's logan airport. reid is a british citizen who converted to...

Down the jet, up would be a long string of close calls. more on the effort to bring down planes by randi kaye. >> reporter: december 22nd, 2001, two months of the 9/11 attacks, american airlines flight 63 with 197 passengers and crew suddenly in trouble. passenger richard reid was attempting to detonate a plastic explosive. he concealed inside his shoes. passengers pounced and the flight headed from paris to miami was safely escorted by fighter jets to boston's logan airport. reid is a british citizen who converted to islam. he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> richard reid is...

Them. the pressure that the cooker can withstand is stamped into the metal. there's no question they were in pressure cookers and the fbi has acknowledged that. they've also acknowledged that the bombs had ball bearings and nail to further amplify the destructive power and try to inflict maximum casualties and in terms of what made them go, that's believed to be smokeless powdered gun powder in essence and the mere fact there was smoke you could see after the blast, smokeless powder with smoke, just not as much as old fashioned black powder. that's not a high explosive. in some categories, cla...

The brand name is on one of them. the pressure that the cooker can withstand is stamped into the metal. there's no question they were in pressure cookers and the fbi has acknowledged that. they've also acknowledged that the bombs had ball bearings and nail to further amplify the destructive power and try to inflict maximum casualties and in terms of what made them go, that's believed to be smokeless powdered gun powder in essence and the mere fact there was smoke you could see after the blast, smokeless powder with smoke, just not as much as old fashioned black powder. that's not a high explos...

More than nine months. some more than a year. while nearly 300 airports across the country go unprotected by the newest, best bomb-scanning technology. >> there are airports around america that really don't realize that in dallas, texas, there are huge amounts of this equipment sitting in excess. >> reporter: a congressional investigation concludes that the tsa is not only wasting $184 million by not deploying security equipment, it is warehousing the one device that can actually detect a nonmetallic plastic explosive. when congress asked why, the report says the tsa told them they ordered ext...