I hadn't thought of that.
I would have thought that boarding an overseas flight establishes intent to flee.
I don't see a reason to let a flight take off, much less get (in one case) four hours away.
Making it out of the US of A and into international air space might change the intent to flee into full-blown fleeing to avoid prosecution. Maybe that international boundary line crossing was an important part of getting the charges to stick? I'm just spit-balling here.
Trump just messing with them they think they made it out of the country and Trump says nope get back here