Gunsmith said,
" It would not surprise me if there is more to 911 than the official narrative on 9/11. I was watching TV and Rumsfield said it was US military pilots that shot down flight 93, 20 minutes later the news readers said that he was mistaken and it was not shot down."
I can see that as an honest mistake. The plane went down, it must have been shot down, right? Nobody entertained the The idea that passengers reacted and the plane crashed because of that was not immediately or generally known. Details only came out a little later from their extensive conversations by cell phone with people on the ground, that they were aware of the other hijackings and that some of the passengers were planning to attack the hijackers.
An extensive breakdown of the events were pieced together from these conversations and the fact that one of the crew members set the radio so that ground controllers could hear what was going on in the cockpit for a while.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll." —Todd Beamer's last words.
So it could be an honest mistake, corrected shortly, and not necessarily reported as such in later reports as being irrelevant to the overall complex fact situation.
I am not one to trust the news media completely. I have forcefully mentioned this and the reasons for it (i.e., obtaining a short wave radio and listening to worldwide news reports) but I can see this one as a simple mistaken pre-assumption... that is, an immediate reasonable presumption about Flight 93 being shot down.
So I'll give 'em a pass on that one. See Wiki on Flight 93 for extensive details of the conversations.
Terry, 230RN