Michael Christopher Estes (born June 11, 1971),[1] formerly of Tazewell, Tennessee,[2] is an American man who was arrested on charges of terrorism, after he placed an improvised explosive device at North Carolina's Asheville Regional Airport in 2017.
[3] Estes put an explosive device outside the entrance to the baggage claim area of Asheville Regional Airport after midnight on October 6, 2017.
[4] In the backpack, Estes had put gloves, fuel, a roll of tape, and an alarm clock bell that matched the one in the bag near the baggage area.
[8] Civil rights activist Shaun King, writing in The Intercept, said that the lack of media attention was because the suspect was white.
[14] The month before planting the explosive device at the airport, Estes had been jailed on charges of breaking and entering, larceny, and attacking a man with a hatchet and knife in Swain County, North Carolina.