The shoe removal rule was first implemented in 2006, but its origin dates back to a 2001 “shoe bomber” plot aboard an American Airlines flight.

Because of Reid’s futile attempt to blow up an airplane, the TSA began ordering passengers to take off their shoes for ...

Reid, a British-born al-Qaeda terrorist, tried to blow up a Miami-bound American Airlines flight from Paris on Dec. 22, 2001, by igniting a fuse connected to powerful explosives stashed in his left ...