Netflix has released "Instadocs: The Decoy Plane," a 28-minute documentary examining how Donald Trump secretly left a NATO summit in Turkey via a catering truck in July 2026, leaving journalists and senior officials aboard a decoy aircraft amid claims of an Iranian plot to attack Air Force One. The film, the third in Netflix's Instadocs series produced by Josh Tyrangiel, features testimony from journalists including Associated Press photographer Alex Brandon, Reuters' Gram Slattery and The Washington Post's Dan Lamothe, who broke the story after being tipped off that the White House had misled reporters about which aircraft Trump actually used.

According to the documentary, Trump initially claimed on Truth Social that he would fly home from the summit on the older Air Force One rather than the newer, Qatari-gifted $400 million jet, offering an implausible explanation involving a tourist attraction. Journalists reveal that press pool members were told to lower their window shades before take-off, only learning weeks later that this was done to conceal Trump's transfer to a catering vehicle. Reporters, including MS Now's Carol Leonnig, link the episode to intelligence reportedly passed by Israel warning of an Iranian plan to shoot down Air Force One, following escalating tensions after the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader in February 2026 and the resulting conflict between the US, Israel and Iran.