AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77

American Airlines Flight 77,
from Washington to Los Angeles,
crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard.

CREW

Charles Burlingame
of Herndon, Virginia,
was the plane's captain.
He is survived by a wife,
a daughter and a grandson.
He had more than 20 years of
experience flying with American Airlines
and was a former U.S. Navy pilot.

David Charlebois,
who lived in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood,
was the first officer on the flight.
"He was handsome and happy and very centered,"
his neighbor Travis White, told The Washington Post.
"His life was the kind of life I wanted to have some day."

Michele Heidenberger
of Chevy Chase, Maryland,
was a flight attendant for 30 years.
She left behind a husband, a pilot, and a daughter and son.

Flight attendant Jennifer Lewis, 38,
of Culpeper, Virginia,
was the wife of flight attendant Kenneth Lewis.

Flight attendant Kenneth Lewis, 49,
of Culpeper, Virginia,
was the husband of flight attendant Jennifer Lewis.

Renee May, 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, was a flight attendant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suzanne Calley, 42, of San Martin, California,
was an employee of Cisco Systems Inc.

William Caswell

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

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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