The BBC got it wrong again

[physicist]

I was just checking my BBC News 24 archive and it's interesting that there is another large reporting error they made on 9/11.

David Dimbleby told us that American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the World Trade Center and that United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the Pentagon. I think not.

Watch the video here and it can be downloaded (xvid avi format).

Remember that UK time on that day was 5 hours ahead of New York time. One would have thought that by 8:47 pm, they would known which plane had hit which building.

Can someone upload this to Google video and youtube please?

[Micpsi]

Yes, but that's a different kind of mistake. Unlike Philip Hayton's statement, it has no potentially sinister overtones. David Dimbleby (or the BBC staff preparing his notes/autocue) has just mixed up the numbers - something easily done. But Hayton did not mix up anything. He was reading from an autocue. So it was not the BBC who dropped a clanger. He was merely reporting what was coming in from New York over the wires and being fed into his autocue. We still need to know what/who was the source of this information about WTC 7 having collapsed. I doubt the BBC will bother to tell us.

[physicist]

This was about 6 hours after the events. You'd think that they would check that information is correct before they broadcast it.

It's very sloppy journalism.

I think Philip Hayton and David Dimbleby were both just reading from an autocue.