Richard Reid American Airlines Shoe Bomber display kit signed Richard Reid from 2001

On the front of the pouch there is a small silver American Airlines plaque. It was never owned by Richard Reid but will make a museum display with his full signature and maximum security prison address and short note: In the name of Allah all written in his hand. 

On 22 December 2001, he boarded American Airlines Flight 63 between Paris and Miami, wearing shoes packed with explosives, which he unsuccessfully tried to detonate. His last words before detonation were « In the name of Allah »

He would of received a similar American Airlines kit while he was on the plane before his attempt to take it down.

Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate an explosive device packed into his shoes while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal. Later he became radicalized and went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained and became a member of Al-Quaeda.