2024年5月31日 · Twenty-three years ago, F-16 fighter pilot Marc Sasseville was sent on a mission that he thought could be his last. Two hijacked planes had flown into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City, and a third had struck the Pentagon.

2021年9月11日 · Soon after two jets rammed into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon in the deadliest attacks on American soil 20 years ago, fighter pilots with the D.C. Air National Guard were in...

2021年9月10日 · On Sept. 11, 2001, rookie F-16 pilot Heather Penney was tasked with flying into hijacked flight 93 to stop it before it reached Washington, D.C.

As we commemorate the 9/11 terror attacks, we're taking a look back at "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell's 2021 interview with Ai...

2021年9月9日 · Purdue alumna Heather Penney was an F-16 pilot with the 121st Fighter Squadron stationed at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93. (Photo by Daniel McGarrity for Purdue University)

2021年9月9日 · After two fighter pilots watched two planes hit the World Trade Center 20 years ago, they scrambled into their F-16s knowing that it might be their last mission. The Air National Guard pilots,...

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2021年9月10日 · On September 11, 2001, Air Force pilot Heather "Lucky" Penney was asked to do the unthinkable. Two F-16Cs from the 121st Fighter Squadron, 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard, fly over the nation’s capital during a combat air patrol in support of Operation Noble Eagle. (SrA Dennis Young/USAF)

On the morning of September 11, 2001, as Americans everywhere were shocked by the terror attack that would change the world, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney and her wingman were airborne in their unarmed F-16 Fighting Falcons over Washington D.C. The plan was to sacrifice themselves to bring down Flight 93, the hijacked Boeing 757 headed for the ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, Penney, then a lieutenant, "had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93," the Post writes. But neither she nor her...