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F-16 pilot was ready to die to stop Flight 93 on 9/11 — Майор (сейчас) Пенни вспоминает, как 11 сентября 2001 года она готовилась идти на таран рейса 93, т.к. ни один самолет не был готов к боевому вылету, в том числе и ее F-16:

In the monumental confusion of those first hours, it was impossible to get clear orders. Nothing was ready. The jets were still equipped with dummy bullets from the training mission. As remarkable as it seems now, there were no armed aircraft standing by and no system in place to scramble them over Washington.