Northwest Airlines Flight 253 is a transatlantic flight to Detroit, Michigan, United States, from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and was the target of an attempted terrorist attack on December 25, 2009. Three people, including the suspected attacker, were wounded. Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the suspect, was taken into custody, treated for his injuries and charged by an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation the following day with attempting to destroy an aircraft.