The Federal Aviation Administration accidentally provided Insider with its internal flight records for Jeffrey Epstein's private jets, revealing more than 2,000 previously unknown flights:
Insider filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Aviation Administration, seeking all flight history data associated with four planes owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The agency rejected Insider's request, but later provided the records in response to an unrelated request.
The new records also corroborate Insider'sInsider has updated its, which now contains 2,618 flights made by Epstein's private jets between 1995 and his arrest on July 6, 2019. In January 2020, Insider asked the Federal Aviation Administration for all of the agency's flight records, including departure and arrival data, associated with a fleet of private jets owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Filed under the Freedom of Information Act, our request seemed to have a decent chance of success: The agency previously releasedIn March 2020, however, the FAA denied our request, saying that"the responsive records originate from an investigative file" and were therefore exempt from disclosure. The agency cited Exemption 7, which Congressto shield records that were"compiled for law enforcement ... [and] could reasonably be expected to interfere with an enforcement proceeding." The FAA did not specify which enforcement proceeding the records might interfere with; Epstein's ex-girlfriend and confidant Ghislaine Maxwell faces trial for sex trafficking charges this month. But despite its original denial, the FAA inadvertently mailed Insider a portion of Epstein's flight records alongside correspondence for an unrelated FOIA request earlier this year. The records contained data on 2,300 flights among four private jets registered to Epstein between 1998 and 2020. Most of them previously appeared in Insider'sNonetheless, the new FAA records also reveal 704 previouslyflights taken by Epstein's planes. These include hundreds of trips from a three-year-long gap in the public record, between 2013 and 2016, when the jets' movements were unaccounted for. The new flight records do not include the names of passengers, but they may offer clues about the whereabouts of Epstein's close associates. Maxwell was a frequent passenger aboard the disgraced financier's jets.
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