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American Airlines Flight 77 is missing from the departure list leaving Washington Dulles Airport the morning of 9/11. This is referenced among conspiracy theorists asserting AA77 was a cover story for a missile or other aircraft hitting the Pentagon. Comparatively, United Airlines Flight 175...
Of the other three flights, two were from Boston and one was from Newark. The passenger lists were probably representative of an early morning business flight from those two cities as well. If so, Flight 77 is unremarkable, particularly when you consider the number of times "Retired" appears after those names.
Don't get upset about accuracy, during flight 77 days in service, the airways were 8 miles wide, thus being 1000, or 2000 feet off real position, is safe inside the "airway". The INS drifts, and the system in 77 used DME/VOR to update the INS/navigation system, which keeps the INS as accurate as DME/VOR or DME/DME.
Flight 175 exceeded Vd, but the plane was designed in the days where it was to be flutter free past Vd, to 1.2Vd, which is not relaxed to 1.15Vd. Search this forum for more info Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 483.5 knots, it is seen flying at the this speed on the FDR, thus it really happend, the engines were at 100 percent at impact.
Flight 77 was lined up for 29. I am not trying to prove a different conspiracy to the one that the government has laid out in this particular example, just that doing a 300º turn and hitting the side of the pentagon lowers the total amount of damage and lives lost, as well as putting the plane in the air longer.
Flight 77 shot down in mountains of W. Virginia I just listened to a radio interview with a controller from Boston Center (google video). He states clearly that three of the flights were tracked continuously on 9/11 - on radar - even after two had turned off their transponders.
To say 'well there's nothing suspicious about the passenger list on flight 77, because you might see similar people on another flight going out of that same airport...' is to me a shaky argument because it takes flight 77 out of context. It was the flight chosen to perform the attack, not any old flight out of Dulles.
The "official story" (or at least the Pentagon Building Performance Report) puts the path of Flight 77 right over the Citgo gas station which co-incedentally fits the testimony of Robert Turcios, Edward Paik, and the dozens of witnesses that reported seeing Flight 77 appear over the Navy Annex.
Y'all are claiming what seems to me a rather inordinate number of defense/defense technology professionals working in similar/related fields to one another, fields that often bear a rather distinct relationship to the events about to transpire, all dying in the crash of flight 77 isn't even unlikely, let alone suspicious.
One "flight training team" in question was under constant surveillance (I think by an FBI team), which was broken by the terrorist team leaving via the back during a surveillance shift change. The service was then unaware of their whereabouts until after they were aboard their flights.