As he was gracing the TV screen as Sam Seaborn on NBC’s “The West Wing,” Rob Lowe had a run-in, unbeknownst to him, with the 9/11 hikackers. Appearing Tuesday on “The View” to promote his new book, “Stories I Only Tell My Friends,” Lowe said he’d actually been on one of the terrorists’ dry run practice flights.
“I flew with the 9/11 hijackers on the dry run, without realizing,” he told the show’s hosts, explaining that he was shooting he took regular flight froms Dulles to LAX. “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 flight and it was packed, small plane. Looked around the cabin, don’t remember anything in particular, nobody looked scary, nobody looked like a terrorist. It looked like an absolutely normal flight … then 9/11 happened”
Lowe didn’t even find out he’d been rubbing elbows with terrorists until a year later, when he got a letter from the Attorney General of Maryland informing him that he may have to testify in court during the trial of al Qaeda leader Zacarias Moussaoui — who had been on the plane with Lowe. As it turned out, he didn’t have to.
