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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: rich4eagle who wrote (195924)10/25/2001 3:27:01 PM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Chicago Tribune & FBI agrees with the controllers:

Federal officials said Flight 77's transponder, which transmitted the aircraft's identification, speed and altitude to air-traffic controllers, appeared to have been turned off to make the flight less visible to Federal Aviation Administration radars.

FAA controllers who viewed the flight tracks said the transponder was deactivated before the Los Angeles-bound plane halted its westbound course and turned back toward Washington, where the flight originated.

The suspected strategy to create a phantom flight fits with information released by the FBI Wednesday that the hijackers of the American 77, which took off from Dulles International Airport, had planned to penetrate restricted airspace and crash into the White House. Instead, the plane crashed into the Pentagon about an hour after the two other aircraft hit the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan.

chicagotribune.com
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