WaPo: U.S. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden ("Decision to Force a Foreign Leader’s Plane to Land")

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31. You should have included the hyperlink:

The WaPo webpage actually says: The decision to divert that plane ended in embarrassment when it was searched in Vienna and Snowden was not aboard

The hyperlink, which you omit, leads to this WaPo article from last summer:

Evo Morales’s controversial flight over Europe, minute by heavily disputed minute
BY MAX FISHER July 3, 2013
... According to Austrian statements, flight FAB-001 requested permission to land in Vienna because the pilots believed they might not have had sufficient fuel ... Audio purportedly taken from FAB-001's calls to Vienna air traffic control (more on the source and verifiability of the audio here) seem to have the flight crew requesting permission to land either because they were low on fuel or due to an indicator problem ...