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Heather Penney

On September 11, 2001 First Lieutenant Heather Penney and her commanding officer, Colonel Marc Sasseville received one-way orders to stop United Airlines Flight 93 as it headed towards Washington, DC. After sweeping the DC airspace for over an hour, the pilots learned the passengers had forced the aircraft down in a Pennsylvania field.

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