Yeah... accepting and going on a ramming mission is heroic. Getting called back wasn’t her choice. People have had a record of “engine running hot” and turning back before. In WWII it happened a lot.
And firemen and cops who ran into the center, and Marines who have been in infantry combat mostly won’t be running her down.
The choice to ram it and ride the plane into as opposed to getting it close and ejecting before it hit would have been her choice, she wasn't ordered to ride it in as a suicide mission.
I do have an issue with the people who are putting this out as a heroic act, and doing so simply because she is a woman, exactly as they did with the Jessica Lynch fiasco. Very likely even the exact same people
This is an example of the work by the linked author, so it is pretty clear she has an agenda to push:
tr: Since the general meme puts a male in one's mind when "fighter pilot" is mentioned, I'll forgive it (the title)
Thanks to you two for posting some common sense here. Major Penney's 9/11 story is a not-insignificant part of what happened that day. She certainly wasn't the greatest hero of 9/11, but she was a hero. I find it a bit sad that a few folks on this thread instead decided to focus on the wording of the article's title.