On 9/11, two unarmed F-16 pilots from Andrews Air Force Base were ordered to stop Flight 93 before it reached Washington. 1st Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney and Lt. Col. Marc Sasseville had no missiles - there wasn’t time to load them. Their plan was to ram the airliner: Sasseville into the cockpit, Penney into the tail. They launched around 10:30 a.m. Flight 93 had already gone down in Pennsylvania 25–30 minutes earlier after the passengers fought back. The two pilots never intercepted it. Most people know what the passengers did. Almost no one knows two fighter pilots were already in the air ready to die doing the same job.