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To: rich4eagle who wrote (195924)	10/25/2001 3:09:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 769670

aliens. Everybody knows that.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (195924)	10/25/2001 3:24:09 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

WP agrees with the controllers: That was American Airlines Flight 77. Controllers could not identify it because its transponder, the piece of equipment that transmits identifying information to radar screens, had been turned off. No radio contact could be established, either. All that Dulles International Airport controllers could do was warn controllers at Ronald Reagan National Airport and then watch as the plane headed closer and closer toward White House airspace, then began a right turn, then dropped below radar level. It was the Pentagon's turn. washingtonpost.com

To: rich4eagle who wrote (195924)	10/25/2001 3:27:01 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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