Cheap Shot
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Unlovedrebel - Yes - that is the N175 (F?) that i was referring too. It also looks like it says 007 138 below.
The poster of this video femr2, and edited versions of it, clearly implies that this N175F information comes from FAA to flightexplorer via radar.
I'll give it a shot, my guess is that a controller started an additional track on UAL175 just in case they lost radar on the aircraft. UAL175 changed its beacon code to a different code during the Hijack. My guess when they started a new track they identified it with the "N" the reason why is in the ATC system requires all first characters to be an "ALPHA" character a "letter" not a number. The "F" at the end probably identified it as word Flight, so basically it was a ghost track. The "007" is probably the computer ID associated with the track, and the 138 below, means the aircraft was descending below 13,800 ft. That altitude could be manually entered or it could have been a Mode C hit. The controller probablly entered this from his position and flight explorer like the TSD or ASD just takes a snapshot of what the controller is watching, nothing else.