# Rumsfeld Says Flight 93 Was Shoot Down... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109 "2007-05-14T23:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cobberone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@cobberone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cobberone)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/1 "2007-05-14T23:09:34Z")
Hi folks, I was on YouTube, and came across a vid that seems to show former US Secretary of Defence, saying (admitting?) that Flight 93, was shot down. Any thoughts? Go to YouTube and do a search of Rumsfeld Flight 93. Warmly, cobberone. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/2 "2007-05-14T23:13:01Z")
Nope. Sorry. You do the link legwork. Also, I’m not sure what you are asking. The clip I found was only 19 seconds long and I can’t tell the context of what Rummy is saying. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/3 "2007-05-14T23:24:14Z")
(sigh) So now the _terrorists_ shot down Flight 93? I thought the conspiracy was that the _US Government_ shot down that plane. Rummy was referring to terrorists when he said ‘they’. Now, if Rummy was ‘admitting’ something, it would seem to me that he was admitting that terrorists had hijacked Flight 93, then _some other_ terrorists shot it down, while other terrorists still were flying other planes into buildings. Does that make any sense whatsoever? Of course it doesn’t. Neither does any of the other 9/11 conspiracy garbage that routinely gets spewed about the internet. He misspoke. It happens. Move on. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/4 "2007-05-14T23:26:06Z")
> **[CNN.com - Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash - Dec 27, 2004](https://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/27/rumsfeld.flt93/)** Rumsfeld was addressing our troops in 2004. > [@](#): > > A comment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. > > But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the “the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania.” > > A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke, but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having been shot down. > > “Was it a slip of the tongue? Was it an error? Or was it the truth, finally being dropped on the public more than three years after the tragedy” asked a posting on the Web site [WorldNetDaily.com](http://WorldNetDaily.com). Pure hokum from the conspiracy nuts. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/5 "2007-05-15T13:24:37Z")
If that’s an indication of how Mr. Rumsfeld’s brain works, it may explain a lot about the Iraq mess (the military told him one thing, but he thought they meant something else). ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/6 "2007-05-15T14:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] If that’s an indication of how Mr. Rumsfeld’s brain works, it may explain a lot about the Iraq mess (the military told him one thing, but he thought they meant something else). [/QUOTE] Rumsfeld, like all other humans, occasionally mispeaks. That’s what happened. It’s sad that some people consider this a topic for debate. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/7 "2007-05-15T14:55:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Hi folks, I was on YouTube, and came across a vid that seems to show former US Secretary of Defence, saying (admitting?) that Flight 93, was shot down. What, you _trust_ Donald Rumsfeld? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/8 "2007-05-15T14:59:11Z")
Assuming Rummy did not misspeak, just curious, why would the admin, as goofy as they are, hide the fact that this plane was shot down, when we know and they admit the other three crashes were the work of the enemy? Don’t want to give them credit for four, only three? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/9 "2007-05-15T16:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Assuming Rummy did not misspeak, just curious, why would the admin, as goofy as they are, hide the fact that this plane was shot down, when we know and they admit the other three crashes were the work of the enemy? Don’t want to give them credit for four, only three? 😕 [/QUOTE] Don’t try to apply logic or reason to a conspiracy theory. It doesn;t work that way. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-says-flight-93-was-shoot-down/404109/10 "2007-05-15T20:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=Plan B] Rumsfeld, like all other humans, occasionally mispeaks. That’s what happened. It’s sad that some people consider this a topic for debate. [/QUOTE] Such as the OP in the title of this thread ;).