‘I flew with the 9/11 hijackers on the dry run’: Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe has revealed he unwittingly flew on a plane alongside the 9/11 bombers on their dry run ahead of the attacks.
The Parks And Recreation star said he was on the flight which 11 days later would crash into the Pentagon, killing all onboard.
Speaking as it was confirmed that Osama Bin Laden has been assassinated, he revealed how close he came to the tragedy.
‘I flew with the 9/11 hijackers on the dry run, without realising,’ he revealed on The View. But he appeared confused about the flight number of the plane he took.
‘I was working on the West Wing in DC at the time and I always took Flight 93 or 73, the flight that leaves Dulles that they eventually put into the Pentagon,’ he said.
United Flight 93 was the plane that was brought down by brave passengers who realised it had been hijacked. It crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all on board. There are theories that the hijackers had wanted to use the plane in an attack on the White House.
American Airlines Flight 77 was the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. The actor seems to have meant he was on that flight, but has not yet clarified.
Lowe explained how he didn’t have any indication that he was flying with the terrorists.
‘It was 11 days before 9/11, I made the flight a lot and I didn’t think anything of it. I got on the plane and it was packed’.
‘Nobody looked scary, nobody looked like a terrorist. It looked like an absolutely normal flight…then 9/11 happened.’
The 47-year-old only found out about how close he had come to the attacks a year later.
He received a letter from the attorney general’s office in Maryland informing that he was on the list to be deposed for terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui’s defence.
‘I think, “This has to be an April Fool’s joke,”’ Lowe revealed.
‘Even just telling the story, it almost feels like it didn’t happen to me. I’m just grateful that I wasn’t one of the so many Americans who had suffered.’
Following the announcement of Bin Laden’s death, Lowe joined the crowds celebrating in New York’s Times Square.
He climbed on top of a fire truck, marking the historic moment.