Tango Alpha Lima remembers 9/11 with retired USAF Lt. Col. and United Airlines Capt. Joe Lea

On Sept. 11, 2001, Joe Lea was a retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, and Captain of a United Airlines Airbus on a flight from Sacramento to LAX.

Lt. Col. Lea shares the story of how his routine flight became anything but normal when he, like all pilots in the air that morning, got orders to land immediately.

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