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...

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.

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)

2018年9月7日 · There was no time to arm their F-16 fighter jets, so they would be flying this mission virtually unarmed, packing only their undaunted courage. But what was the mission? Where were they to go?

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,...

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...

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)

WASHINGTON — Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of...