OY! Charles, you really should not have updated that it being an airliner was likely.

Aside from all the geometry arguments, we presumably know who was flying airliners around LA at that time. It would not all all be hard to identify the airliner.

While we are at it, the Pentagon would not be busy being interviewed and having no information, or acting like they were worried it is a missile. They would be the ones pushing the airliner story first.

I will give 5% chance I am wrong on this - but the whole LA in the foreground shot seals it for me.