Six months after the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens , New York on November 12 , 2001 , Mohammed Mansour Jabarah agreed to cooperate with American authorities in exchange for a reduced sentence . He said that fellow Canadian Abderraouf Jdey had been responsible for the flight 's destruction , using a shoe bomb similar to that found on Reid several months earlier . This claim remains unsubstantiated by the investigation into the cause of the crash , however , Jabarah was a known colleague of Khalid Sheikh Mohamed , and said that Reid and Jdey had both been enlisted by the al-Qaeda chief to participate in identical plots
American Airlines Flight 587
American Airlines Flight 587
2001 shoe bomb attempt