The Conner Family Ch. 10

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"A Display of Honors"

Prologue:

Previously: In Chapter Three: "Nightmares Of A Broken Promise"

Navy Fighter Pilot, Captain Jennifer Ann Conner, while engaged in a training mission, while assigned to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola Florida, severely injured when her fighter jet, loaded with fuel and weapons, suffered multiple bird strikes and both engines failed while she was flying over the crowded Florida Navy Base. Then her jet fighter began to fall from the sky. She could have ejected like she had ordered Lt. Alice Sweet, her Weapons Officer or RIO to do and then allowed the jet to fall and possibly crash into any of the bases crowded buildings, like other pilots had in the past. Then have her fighter hit an occupied building, such as an office. Or perhaps a cluster of homes. Or as most likely in her case: the Base's crowed Elementary school on that early morning where classes had just begun.

Instead - she flew on alone - in her unpowered jet - seeking a safe place to put the fighter down even if it meant aiming her plane at a safe spot and staying with the jet to ensure the jet crashed away from anything and everyone and - losing her life in the process. The crowed area of the Navy Base offered almost no place large enough for the jet to safely crash in. Except for a span of trees just beyond the base's Elementary School. When it came time - she aimed her crippled jet downward towards the trees and when sure where her jet fighter would hit - only then she ejected at the last possible moment.

Previously:

From Chapter One: "A Gift On Christmas Eve"