Then-rookie tells story of how she almost gave her life on 9/11
(NEWSER) - Heather “Lucky” Penney was a rookie who’d just finished F-16 training on September 11, 2001, but when the attacks hit, she was one of two pilots who took to the air to defend Washington from United 93. There was just one problem: They didn’t have any ammo or weapons. Except, that is, for their own planes. “We wouldn’t be shooting it down,” she tells the Washington Post . “We’d be ramming the aircraft. I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.” More»
