Original sentence: After they were detained, the NBC crew revealed their true identities and contacted NBC lawyers.It is very difficult to find any information on this incident outside of aviation news media.Louis Downtown Airport and attempted to gain access to a helicopter and pilot.NBC subsequently squelched any mention of their failed attempt in the news media.On August 11,2004, two Dateline NBC employees posing as middle-eastern terrorists entered St.Searches of the NBC crew's rental car revealed a large assortment of hijacking tools in their luggage, including box-cutters of the type used in the September 11, 2001 attacks.Since the story did not go the way they wanted it to, rather than make any statement that would contradict their intended POV, they buried the story.The airport personnel suspected foul play and contacted the FBI and local authorities, who made a full response and arrested the NBC crew.The reporters revealed that they were planning a national story highlighting failures in general aviation airport security and the threat posed by small aircraft as a vector for terrorist attack focusing on an artificially negative point of view.They also obtained audio tapes of conversations of the airport employees.They attempted to pay in cash and presented out-of-state driver licenses.They were subsequently released with no charges filed against them and no compensation was paid to either the airport personnel involved or the authorities who responded to the scene