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Some answers, and some more questions
about Saudi chartered jet on 9/19/01
by Kevin Good, Unknown News
June 22, 2007
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In the aftermath of 9/11/2001, there was one charter flight that got special
clearance from the White House and the FBI to fly from Los Angeles CA to
Orlando FL, on to Washington DC, then to Boston MA, and then leave the country.
It was the plane that took members of Osama bin Laden's family out of America, back to their homes in Saudi Arabia.
Documents recently obtained using the Freedom Of Information Act suggest that the charter flights were reserved either by Osama bin Laden himself, or by the Saudi royalty. Here's an excerpt from the redacted document  (click to enlarge).
The full document is here (PDF).
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A line that was not redacted was "This airplane has no more than 30 seats on the plane." According to its manufacturer, a Boeing 727 has a maximum seating capacity of 189.
| | From the Washington Post: The passenger list was made public by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who obtained the manifest from officials at Boston's Logan International Airport. ... Although much was already known about the "bin Laden flight," Lautenberg provided additional details, including the information that the plane, a 727 owned by DB Air and operated by Ryan International, began its flight in Los Angeles and made stops in Orlando, Dulles International Airport and Boston before continuing to Gander, Newfoundland; Paris; Geneva; and Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. The aircraft, tail number N521DB, has been chartered frequently by the White House for the press corps traveling with President Bush.
A staff report by the Sept. 11 commission this spring said the flight was one of six chartered flights carrying 142 people, mostly Saudi nationals, from the United States between Sept. 14 and 24 after airspace was reopened. The U.S. government had allowed, before commercial airspace was reopened, at least one domestic flight for Saudis who had feared for their safety, Lautenberg's staff said.
The commission reported that there were 23 passengers and three private security guards on the bin Laden flight. However, the manifest lists 25 passengers, plus the three guards employed by CDT Training Inc. of Elmwood Park , N.J. After a request for permission to allow the bin Ladens to leave reached Richard A. Clarke at the National Security Council, the flight departed Logan Airport in Boston at 11 p.m. on Sept. 19, 2001. | |
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