I should have been more specific. The air traffic controllers tracked the flight as normal, until the hijackers turned off the transponder.
The situation is very easy to research for anyone with a modicum of intelligence. For the kooks that claim that AA flight 77 didn't hit the pentagon, they need to explain where AA flight 77 and all it's passengers disappeared to, and why numerous eye witnesses claim to have seen the plane hit the pentagon. Oh, and all the AA flight 77 plane parts strewn about the wreckage.
8:54 The westbound plane turned to the south, a deviation from its flight plan.
8:56 Airplane’s transponder was turned off. Radar contact was also lost. An air traffic controller at the Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center tried repeatedly to make contact with the pilot; receiving no response, he contacted American Airlines, which was similarly unsuccessful. Unaware of the earlier hijackings, the air traffic controllers began notifying other agencies that the plane might have crashed.
9:09 the Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center notified the FAA regional centre that it had lost contact with flight 77.
9:12 one of the flight attendants, Renee May, used her cell phone to call her mother; she asked her mother to tell American Airlines that the flight had been hijacked.
9:14 Barbara Olson phoned her husband to tell him that the plane had been hijacked and that all the people aboard had been herded to the back of the plane. It was about that same time that the Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center learned from American Airlines that other planes had been hijacked. A discussion ensued between the FAA command centre and Indianapolis, and another confused conversation took place between the FAA and the Northeast Air Defense Sector. In the meantime, flight 77 traveled undetected back toward Washington for 36 minutes.
9:32 Air traffic controllers at Dulles found an unidentified aircraft traveling east at a high rate of speed and notified their compatriots at Reagan National Airport. FAA officials at both airports notified the Secret Service, and controllers at Reagan ordered an airborne National Guard cargo plane to find and follow the unidentified aircraft.
9:34 flight 77 was 5 miles (8 km) west-southwest of the Pentagon; it executed a sharp turn and quick descent and dove toward the Pentagon
9:37 AA flight 77 hit's the pentagon
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Airlines-flight-77
LOL that you took the time to type all that in the year 2021
but a rueful 10x LOL that on NFL Opening Sunday this thread Topic dominates the Main Forum of what was at one time the leading website in the world for exchanging quality info about sports handicapping and all that entails
I have made my own likely mediocre efforts to stimulate active chat here in 2021 re SPORTS! and today is the day I realize it is like applying battery jumper cables to a cadaver and that any thought this site will ever revert to ACTIVE sportsbetting discussion is a woeful exercise in self-spanking
RIP Rx
zit you still have my yahoo email addy, 5TeamPar you know my fbook, Ricboff you gots my phone, carlito you are a really good sport but I am too old for this.....Best regards to the less than dozen men reading this thread who have not surrendered to the paranoia that TheWorldIsEnding and AmericaIsDying