Who Knew?

[jpmassar]

Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, a female combat pilot... was sent up into the air on 9/11 in a plane that wasn't armed with weapons, with the instructions to find and bring down Flight 93 before it could get to Washington - with her plane. She was to ram it, crash into it, and if she was lucky, she might have time to eject.

Via Andrew Sullivan

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I will simply note ...

[freelikebeer]

...that an F-16 is a very rugged aircraft An airliner, by comparison, is not. She would have had a lot of options to bring it down without, really, causing material harm to her aircraft. Recall that chinese fighter pilots brought down a P-3 by disrupting its aerodynamics.