Edited sentence: Former President Bill Clinton was instrumental in their return, and accompanied the reporters on board Stephen Bing's plane.On August 5, 2009, a 737 private aircraft owned by Stephen Bing and based out of hangar 25 at the Burbank airport in Southern California, was utilized in the return of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee who had spent 5 months of a 12 year sentence, in North Korea