A US official with knowledge of the plan separately confirmed it to the New York Times. Television crews filmed him boarding the older jumbo at Ankara Esenboga on 8 July. The travelling press corps, who believed they were flying with the president, were asked to keep the blinds down in the press cabin. The C-32A landed at Mildenhall at about 10.20pm local time, with the older Air Force One and the media arriving minutes afterwards. Bill Clinton used the same approach in March 2000, flying into Pakistan on an unmarked executive jet while a formal Air Force One landed as a decoy.