The story...
Air traffic controllers watching Flight 77 just before it hit the Pentagon, thought that it was a fighter, not a 757.
Our take...
This is commonly supported by the following quote from Danielle O' Brien:
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane" http://911review.com/attack/pentagon/location.html
But this is another example where a crucial part of the quote has been left out. Here's the oh-so-important extra two sentences:
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," O'Brien said. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe." http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hijackeWr.htm
O' Brien wasn't saying the plane couldn't be a 757, just that it was being flown in a dangerous way for a passenger jet. Of course the hijackers really didn't care about "safety" or the comfort of the passengers, so this quote doesn't really tell us much at all.
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