"Was there no other option than to make this plane turn around
above Canada? What was it these people were suspected of by the
United States that they couldn't pass through its airspace... and
why isn't that information known in Holland?"
Source: A question, submitted to Dutch Justice
Minister Piet Hein Donner by legislators Peter van Heemst and Co
Verdas. It was just one in a laundry list of things the two
lawmakers wanted to know after a KLM aircraft carrying 278
passengers was refused permission to overfly the US at the last
minute Friday. The reason? Two Saudi passengers on that aircraft
were on a no-fly list. But Dutch authorities said they didn't share
that information with the US and are now wondering just how those
names fell into US hands. The aircraft wa