Kamikaze Mission

By David Kurtz

September 9, 2011 6:56 a.m.

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Pretty amazing interview with one of the first two fighter pilots scrambled after the 9/11 attacks to take down any more airliners coming into the DC air space. The problem? As she tells it, there hadn’t been time to arm the fighters.

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