A recent 9/11 panel report states that the chartered flights took place starting Sept. 14, once airspace had reopened....
In the two days immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, the U.S. government allowed bin Laden family members to fly within the country during a general ban on air travel:
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According to the Saudi embassy, about 300 Saudis living in the United States took up their government's offer to fly home if they feared reprisals in the wake of the hijackings. But that repatriation program has been shelved, according to a Saudi diplomat, because at least some of those who volunteered to fly home did so for reasons that had nothing to do with fear. The diplomat said Saudi officials learned that some who flew home were students who were in danger of flunking out. "Too many people were abusing it, so we suspended the program," said the diplomat.
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Two armed bodyguards hired to chaperon
recall a 100-minute trip Sept. 13 quite vividly. In the end, the son of a Saudi Arabian prince who is the nation's defense minister, and the son of a Saudi army commander made it to Kentucky for a waiting 747.
The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a private hangar on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anything but ordinary. It lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Tampa detectives guarding the men were ordered to stay in Tampa by Police Chief Bennie Holder, so was offered the job of escorting the trio to Lexington, Ky., where the prince's relatives were buying race horses.
But the Lear was not headed back to Fort Lauderdale, Grossi said the pilot told him. It was bound for New Orleans to pick up someone who needed a ride to New York.7
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