Just For Fun: I Bet You Didn’t Know This About Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe played my favorite character in my favorite TV Show of last decade (The West Wing). And of course, he has had his share of controversy. But did you know that Rob was a passenger on a dry run of the flight that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11? Or that on the night the World learned of the death of Bin Laden, Rob joined celebrants in Times Square, even climbing up on a fire truck? I didn’t either.

From The Huffington Post:

In the midst of playing one of the most important men in Washington on television, Rob Lowe had a far too close for comfort run-in with the terrorists that would soon tragically change the course of real life American history.

“I flew with the 911 hijackers on the dry run, without realizing. I was shooting ‘The West Wing’ in DC at the time and I always took the flight that leaves Dulles to Los Angeles that they eventually put into the Pentagon.  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.”

Lowe nearly had to testify in court during the trial of al Qaeda leader Zacarias Moussaoui — he found out that he was on the dry run flight in a letter from the Attorney General of Maryland — but ended up not having to do so.