Former D.C. Air National Guard Fighter Pilot Heather Penney discusses the 9/11 mission she was given and what she was prepared to do to stop Flight 93.
Former fighter pilot Heather Penney joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss the order she was given as a rookie pilot and what she was prepared to do to protect the United States 21 years ago.Former D.C.
"As a brand new rookie pilot… we didn’t have any ordinance on our aircraft, just training ordinance. But we knew we had to get airborne," Penney recalled when she spoke with"Fox & Friends Weekend." "We knew we had to protect our nation’s capital," she continued."But our biggest challenges were getting the authorization to launch and getting real live weapons on the aircraft."
Former fighter pilot Heather Penney recalls the 9/11 mission she was given to stop Flight 93, and the sacrifice she was willing to make. The planes Penney and her team prepped and flew for this mission were F-16 Falcons, which are significantly smaller than commercial planes United Airlines uses to transport civilian passengers, as"Fox & Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth pointed out., could be one of the hijacked planes."In the military, we don’t train for suicide missions because we value our
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