It looks more like the propaganda that starts to fly when the country is being geared up to dislike a country than a real issue.

No one's found the person(s) who would have made the requests, there apparently were women on the plane, and there were women as invited guests at the landing.

And it seems a woman controller was clearing the flight through US airspace as it left. If this were an issue I'd suspect the plane would have sat on the ground until a man took over.

And there are hundreds of Saudi airplanes which visit the US and no one's complained about this before.

I think people will believe what they want to on this one, despite facts (women on plane, women at landing, woman controlling departure), logic (the Saudis dress funny, but they aren't dumb), and reason (it just doesn't come together).

It could well have been a hoax, though. And a pretty good one. There are phony bomb and other threats called in fairly regularly.

Arf