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The Flight Path Anomalies and Radar Discrepancies 10:29 Jackson: We’ve been talking about the buildings, but I want to swing back to the flights because the radar data for American Airlines Flight 77—the one that hit the Pentagon—is just as baffling as the ACARS signals we discussed earlier. The official story says it made a sharp U-turn near the Ohio-Kentucky border and headed back to D.C., right?
10:50 Lena: That’s the narrative. But an independent analysis of the FAA radar tracking data released through FOIA tells a different story. Vincent Moreau of 9/11 Maps plotted the files and found that the aircraft blip associated with Flight 77 didn't actually make that turn. Instead, it appears to have continued flying over Indianapolis and then straight over Missouri.
11:10 Jackson: Wait, Missouri? That’s nowhere near the Pentagon. And if the plane was over Missouri, then what hit the building in D.C.?
11:18 Lena: That is the million-dollar question. Interestingly, Air Traffic Control transcripts from 10:31 a.m. that day actually mention tracking Flight 77 over Missouri. This directly contradicts the claim that the plane was lost from radar at 8:56 a.m. after the transponder was turned off. If they were tracking it over Missouri, they had a primary radar return on it.
11:36 Jackson: So the "official" version says it was lost and then suddenly reappeared over D.C., but the controllers were actually following a target in the opposite direction? That sounds like a decoy or a swap. And then there’s the America West Airlines coincidence.
11:52 Lena: You mean the plane with the tail number N644AW? It’s incredibly similar to Flight 77’s tail number, which was N644AA. That America West flight took off from Ohio at 8:40 a.m.—just sixteen minutes before Flight 77’s transponder went dark in the same general area. And guess where it landed? At Reagan National Airport, which is right across from the Pentagon, at 9:39 a.m.—almost the exact time of the Pentagon impact.
12:19 Jackson: Both planes were owned by the same company, Wilmington Trust, and they both had nearly identical tail numbers. If you were going to perform an airplane swap, that’s exactly how you’d do it. It might explain why the Secret Service, according to the ATC transcripts at 11:17 a.m., didn't even believe it was a plane that hit the Pentagon at first.
12:40 Lena: And let’s not forget the ELT—the Emergency Locator Transmitter. These things are designed to activate on impact and send a distress signal with GPS coordinates. On 9/11, there is no evidence that an ELT was ever triggered at the Pentagon. It’s another one of those technical "dogs that didn't bark."
12:56 Jackson: It makes the hijacking narrative for Flight 77 feel like a script that doesn't match the raw data. We’re told Hani Hanjour, a man who flight instructors said couldn't fly a simple Cessna, pulled off a 330-degree descending spiral at 530 miles per hour to hit the first floor of the Pentagon. Experienced Boeing pilots have said they couldn't do that.
13:22 Lena: It’s a point that Art Olivier and other researchers emphasize. They argue that the masterminds wouldn't have gambled a mission of this scale on pilots with "shoddy" skills. If you need a guaranteed hit to justify a building's destruction or a war, you don't leave it to a guy who was reported to the FAA because his instructors thought his license was fake.
13:42 Jackson: So if the pilots weren't capable, we’re left with remote control or some kind of automated guidance. But then we run into the physics again. A Boeing 767 flying at 585 miles per hour at sea level—like what we saw in New York—is pushing the aircraft way beyond its design limits. The air is three times thicker at ground level. The engines would be under insane strain.
14:07 Lena: Not to mention the structural integrity of the plane itself. Some researchers, like Art Olivier, have proposed that these weren't standard aluminum aircraft at all. He suggests they might have been specially designed vehicles made of lead and steel, disguised as Boeings. Lead is much denser than aluminum—about 44 percent denser than steel—which would explain how they could slice through the heavy steel exoskeleton of the Twin Towers.
14:31 Jackson: I know that sounds wild to some people, but it addresses the "aluminum vs. steel" problem. A thin aluminum wing hitting a 14-inch box column made of 3/8-inch structural steel should have been shredded. Instead, we saw the planes enter the buildings like they were cutting through butter.
14:48 Lena: It’s an interesting theory, especially when you look at the molten metal seen dripping from the South Tower. Lead melts at 621 degrees Fahrenheit, while aluminum takes double that. If there was lead in those aircraft, it would have turned to liquid much faster and flowed out of the corners of the building just as we saw in the footage.
15:07 Jackson: It’s a lot to wrap your head around, but when the official physics don't work, you have to look at the "improbable" alternatives. Whether it was a swap, a remote-controlled drone, or a specialized lead-hardened vehicle, the data tells us that what we were told happened in the cockpit doesn't align with what was happening in the air.