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
Curtis Brown II,
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.
Zandra
Cooper:
see Zandra
F. Ploger
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
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.
Robert
R. Ploger III,
59, husband of
Zandra F. Ploger, of Annandale VA, was a software
architect at Lockheed Martin Corp. They were on their
Honeymoon to Hawaii, one day shy of their 4th month
wedding anniversary.
Zandra
F. Ploger
(listed also as Zandra Cooper),
48, wife of
Robert R. Ploger III, of Annandale VA, worked for IBM for
about 20 years.
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.
Sandra Teague, 31, physical
therapist, Georgetown University Hospital
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