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Tonight once again, I googled the story and finally found it listed on Philadelphia's KYW Newsradio. At first glance I couldn't find the story on their site so I pulled up the cached story and then found another one. They are both below.

Cached story from November 28, 2005:

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAXFBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport. Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed. The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit. FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was.

Cached report from Philadephia KYW Newsradio

Here's the story archived and dated today on Philadelphia's KYW Newsradio:

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAX (11/28/05)FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport. Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed. The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit. FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was.

Archived story December 1, 2005 Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAX

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China is interested.

From (China) People's Daily Online English:

Northrop unveils airliner defense system against missile attack

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Ping to Post #505

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Well BUMP.

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PING to post #505

[July 4th]

There we go. Thank you. Some real progress on this, finally. Although the flight number is still wrong. But it looks like 612 would be the correct flight number - the reporter got the numbers transposed.

612 is an LAX-Chicago-DC flight.

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FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was.

Well, perhaps it should be investigated a little, hmmmm?