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AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77
American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los
Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard.
PASSENGERS
Paul Ambrose, 32, of Washington, was a
physician who worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and
the surgeon general to address racial and ethnic disparities in health. A 1995
graduate of Marshall University School of Medicine, Ambrose last year was named
the Luther Terry Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Preventative Medicine.
Yeneneh Betru, 35, was from Burbank,
California.
M.J. Booth
Bernard Brown, 11, was a student at Leckie
Elementary School in Washington. He was embarking on an educational trip to the
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as
part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
Suzanne Calley, 42, of San Martin,
California, was an employee of Cisco Systems Inc.
William Caswell
Sarah Clark, 65, of Columbia, Maryland,
was a sixth-grade teacher at Backus Middle School in Washington. She was
accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National
Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by
the National Geographic Society.
Asia Cottom, 11, was a student at Backus
Middle School in Washington. Asia was embarking on an educational trip to the
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as
part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
James Debeuneure, 58, of Upper Marlboro,
Maryland, was a fifth-grade teacher at Ketcham Elementary School in Washington.
He was accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program
funded by the National Geographic Society.
Rodney Dickens, 11, was a student at
Leckie Elementary School in Washington. He was embarking on an educational trip
to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California,
as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
Eddie Dillard
Charles Droz
Barbara Edwards, 58, of Las Vegas, Nevada,
was a teacher at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas.
Charles S. Falkenberg, 45, of University
Park, Maryland, was the director of research at ECOlogic Corp., a software
engineering firm. He worked on data systems for NASA and also developed data
systems for the study of global and regional environmental issues. Falkenburg
was traveling with his wife, Leslie Whittingham, and their two daughters, Zoe,
8, and Dana, 3.
Zoe Falkenberg, 8, of University Park,
Maryland, was the daughter of Charles Falkenberg and Leslie Whittingham.
Dana Falkenberg, 3, of University Park,
Maryland, was the daughter of Charles Falkenberg and Leslie Whittingham.
Joe Ferguson was the director of the
National Geographic Society's geography education outreach program in
Washington. He was accompanying a group of students and teachers on an
educational trip to the Channel Islands in California. A Mississippi native, he
joined the society in 1987. "Joe Feguson's final hours at the Geographic reveal
the depth of his commitment to one of the things he really loved," said John
Fahey Jr., the society's president. "Joe was here at the office until late
Monday evening preparing for this trip. It was his goal to make this trip
perfect in every way."
Wilson "Bud" Flagg of Millwood, Virginia,
was a retired Navy admiral and retired American Airlines pilot.
Dee Flagg
Richard Gabriel
Ian Gray, 55, of Washington was the
president of a health-care consulting firm.
Stanley Hall, 68, was from Rancho Palos
Verdes, California.
Bryan Jack, 48, of Alexandria, Virginia,
was a senior executive at the Defense Department.
Steven D. "Jake" Jacoby, 43, of
Alexandria, Virginia, was the chief operating officer of Metrocall Inc., a
wireless data and messaging company.
Ann Judge, 49, of Virginia was the travel
office manager for the National Geographic Society. She was accompanying a group
of students and teachers on an educational trip to the Channel Islands in
California. Society President John Fahey Jr. said one of his fondest memories of
Judge is a voice mail she and a colleague once left him while they were rafting
the Monkey River in Belize. "This was quintessential Ann -- living life to the
fullest and wanting to share it with others," he said.
Chandler Keller, 29, was a Boeing
propulsion engineer from El Segundo, California.
Yvonne Kennedy
Norma Khan, 45, from Reston, Virginia was
a nonprofit organization manager.
Karen A. Kincaid, 40, was a lawyer with
the Washington firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding. She joined the firm in 1993 and
was part of the its telecommunications practice. She was married to Peter
Batacan.
Norma Langsteuerle
Dong Lee
Dora Menchaca, 45, of Santa Monica,
California, was the associate director of clinical research for a biotech firm.
Christopher Newton, 38, of Anaheim,
California, was president and chief executive officer of Work-Life Benefits, a
consultation and referral service. He was married and had two children. Newton
was on his way back to Orange County to retrieve his family's yellow Labrador,
who had been left behind until they could settle into their new home in
Arlington, Virginia.
Barbara Olson, 45, was a conservative
commentator who often appeared on CNN and was married to U.S. Solicitor General
Theodore Olson. She twice called her husband as the plane was being hijacked and
described some details, including that the attackers were armed with knives. She
had planned to take a different flight, but she changed it at the last minute so
that she could be with her husband on his birthday. She worked as an
investigator for the House Government Reform Committee in the mid-1990s and
later worked on the staff of Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles.
Ruben Ornedo, 39, of Los Angeles,
California, was a Boeing propulsion engineer.
Robert Penniger, 63, of Poway, California,
was an electrical engineer with BAE Systems.
Lisa Raines, 42, was senior vice president
for government relations at the Washington office of Genzyme, a biotechnology
firm. She was from Great Falls, Virginia, and was married to Stephen Push. She
worked with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on developing a new policy
governing cellular therapies, announced in 1997. She also worked on other major
health-care legislation.
Todd Reuben, 40, of Potomac, Maryland, was
a tax and business lawyer.
John Sammartino
Diane Simmons
George Simmons
Mari-Rae Sopper of Santa Barbara,
California, was a women's gymnastics coach at the University of California at
Santa Barbara. She had just gotten the post August 31 and was making the trip to
California to start work.
Bob Speisman, 47, was from Irvington, New
York.
Hilda Taylor was a sixth-grade teacher at
Leckie Elementary School in Washington. She was accompanying a student on an
educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa
Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic
Society.
Leonard Taylor was from Reston, Virginia.
Leslie A. Whittington, 45, was from
University Park, Maryland. The professor of public policy at Georgetown
University in Washington was traveling with her husband, Charles Falkenberg, 45,
and their two daughters, Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3. They were traveling to Los Angeles
to catch a connection to Australia. Whittington had been named a visiting fellow
at Australian National University in Canberra.
John Yamnicky, 71, was from Waldorf,
Maryland.
Vicki Yancey
Shuyin Yang
Yuguag Zheng
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