F-16 pilot was ready to down plane her father piloted on 9/11
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/09/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-down-plane-her.html
Oh, and one other thing about that F-16 pilot we wrote about in this space last week . That commercial airliner she was supposed to bring down on Sept. 11, 2001? It turns out her father could well have been one of the pilots.
When we chronicled the little-told Sept. 11 history of Maj. Heather "Lucky" Penney, one of the first fighter pilots in the air over Washington that morning, we knew that she and Col. Marc Sasseville had been ordered airborne out of fear that a hijacked plane was heading to the capital. We knew that in the scramble, they had to launch without live ammunition or missiles. We knew they were prepared to ram that 757, at the likely cost of their own lives as well as those of everyone on board.
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