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Flight Attendant Memorials

This section of Flight Attendants.org is respectfully provided to give family, friends and colleagues of those who have perished, a chance to submit words about their loved ones. Here you have an opportunity to share with the World's flight attendants-past, present and future, an insight into their lives.

You are invited to submit eulogies, special thoughts and prayers, or a special mention of their Name.

Please submit your Memorial to admin@flightattendants.org for inclusion within these pages. Space is unlimited. Pictures are welcome.

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Crew of Comair Flight 5191

Crew of American Airlines Flight 587

Crew of Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK 686

Crew of American Airlines Flight 11

Crew of United Airlines Flight 175

Crew of American Airlines Flight 77

Crew of United Airlines Flight 93

Crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 261

Crew of ValuJet Airlines Flight 592

Comair, (Delta Connection), Flight 5191

Comair Flight 5191, a CRJ-200 regional jet with 47 passengers and three crew members, crashed on take-off at 6:07 a.m. on Sunday, August 27, 2006, departing Lexington, KY, for Atlanta, GA. There was one survivor.	Remembering 5191

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Jeffrey Clay, (35), Captain of flight 5191, was based out of Northern Kentucky International Airport, Cincinnati, OH Kelly James Heyer, (27), was a Flight Attendant, based out of John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, NY * "C.W." Fortney II, (34), was a commuting Air Tran First Officer onboard this flight	Captain Jeffrey Clay	Flight Attendant Kelly Heyer

American Airlines Flight 587

An American Airlines plane with 251 passengers and nine crew on board crashed in a residential area of Queens, New York, on November 12, 2001. All onboard and five people on the ground were killed. Flight 587 was on its way to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic when it went down at about 9:17 ET, minutes after takeoff from Kennedy International airport, in the Rockaway neighbourhood.

Position	Name	Passport
Captain	Edward States	United States
First Officer	Sten Molin	United States
Purser	William Valdespino	United States
Flight Attendant	Carol Palm	United States
Flight Attendant	Michele Mills	United States
Flight Attendant	Joseph Lopes	United States
Flight Attendant	Wilmer Gonzalez	United States
Flight Attendant	Barbara Giannasca	United States
Flight Attendant	Deborah ("Debbie") Fontakis	United States

Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK 686

Position	Name	Nationality	Age
Captain	Joakim Gustafsson	Swedish	36
First Officer	Anders Hyllander	Swedish	36
Purser	Lise Lotte Andersen	Danish	57
Air Steward	Olaf Jakobsson	Swedish	49
Air Host	Janne Penttinen	Danish	30
Air Host	Eiler S. Danielsen	Danish	27

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11

A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles. The plane, carrying 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots, crashed into a tower of New York’s World Trade Center about 8:45 a.m. ET Sept. 11.

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John Ogonowski, 52, of Dracut, Massachusetts, was the Captain of Flight 11. He lived on a 150-acre farm north of Boston. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and three daughters, Laura, 16; Caroline, 14; and Mary, 11. A lifelong aviation buff, he joined the Air Force after graduating from college and flew planes at the close of the Vietnam War. He joined American Airlines in 1979.

Thomas McGuinness, 42, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was Flight 11's First Officer. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl, and a 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter. He was active in Bethany Church in Greenland, New Hampshire, friends and neighbors told The Boston Globe. Rick DeKoven, a church administrator, described him as "a devoted family man."

Barbara Arestegui, 38, was a flight attendant from Marstons Mills, Massachusetts.

Jeffrey Collman was a flight attendant.

Sara Low, 28, was a flight attendant from Batesville, Arkansas.

Karen Martin was a flight attendant.
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Kathleen Nicosia was a flight attendant.

Betty Ong, 45, was a flight attendant from Andover, Massachusetts.

Jean Roger, 24, was a flight attendant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

Dianne Snyder, 42, was a flight attendant from Westport, Massachusetts.

Madeline Sweeney, 35, was a flight attendant from Acton, Massachusetts.

Flight Attendant
Jean Roger

Flight Attendant
Sara Low

Flight Attendant
Kathleen Nicosia

Flight Attendant
Jeffrey Collman

Flight Attendant
Madeline Sweeney

Flight Attendant
Barbara (Bobbi) Arestegui

Flight Attendant
Betty Ong

Flight Attendant
Dianne Snyder

UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 175

A Boeing 767 bound from Boston to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. It crashed into the other tower of the World Trade Center shortly after 9 a.m. ET.

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Captain Victor Saracini, 51, of Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, was a Navy veteran. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Michael Horrocks was first officer.

Robert J. Fangman was a flight attendant.

Amy N. Jarret, 28, of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, was a flight attendant.

Amy R. King and Michael C. Tarrou were both flight attendants.

Kathryn L. Laborie was a flight attendant.

Alfred G. Marchand of Alamogordo, New Mexico, was a flight attendant.

Alicia N. Titus was a flight attendant.

Flight Attendant
Robert Fangman

Flight Attendant
Amy Jarret

Flight Attendant
Alfred Marchand

Flight Attendant
Alicia Titus

Kathryn Laborie

Flight Attendant
Kathryn Laborie

Flight Attendants
Amy R. King
Michael C. Tarrou

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77

A Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport near Washington to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots. It crashed into the Pentagon about 9:45 a.m. ET.

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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."

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

Kenneth Lewis, 49, and Jennifer Lewis, 48, of Culpeper, Virginia, husband and wife, were both flight attendants.

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

Flight Attendant
Michelle Heidenberger

Flight Attendant
Renee May

Flight Attendants Kenneth and Jennifer Lewis

UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93

A Boeing 757 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco. The plane was carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. It crashed southeast of Pittsburgh around 10:20 a.m. ET.

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Jason Dahl, 43, from Denver, Colorado, was the plane's captain. He had a wife and son. Dahl had a lifelong interest in flying, said his aunt, Maxine Atkinson, of Waterloo, Iowa.

Leroy Homer, 36, from Marlton, New Jersey, was the first officer on board. He was married and had a daughter.

Lorraine Bay was a flight attendant.

Sandra Bradshaw, 38, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a flight attendant.

Wanda Green was a flight attendant.

Cee Cee Lyles of Fort Myers, Florida, was a flight attendant. She reached her husband, Lorne, by cell phone to tell him that she loved him and their children before the plane went down. The couple between them had four children.

Deborah Jacobs Welsh was a flight attendant.


Flight Attendant Sandra Bradshaw	Flight Attendant Cee Cee Lyles

Flight Attendant Wanda Green	Flight Attendant Deborah Jacobs Welsh
Flight Attendant Lorraine Bay

ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT 261 (currently under construction)

An MD80 that went down on January 31, 2000 in the Pacific off the coast of the Santa Barbara area in California. The flight was en route from Puerto Vallarta to San Francisco when they experienced a catastrophic mechanical failure. All 88 passengers and crew were lost.

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Captain Ted Thompson, 53 years old, based in Los Angeles, lived in Redlands, CA.

First Officer William Tansky, 57 years old, based in Los Angeles, lived in Alameda, CA

Flight Attendant Allison Shanks, 33 years old, based in Seattle, lived in Seattle with her mother and her beautiful daughter Hailey.

Flight Attendant Craig Pulanco, 30 years old, based in Seattle, lived in Seattle with his partner Paul Pulanco, 40 years old, who was with him on the flight.

Flight Attendant Kristin Mills, 26 years old, based in Seattle, lived in Las Vegas with her husband.

Flight Attendant Sarah Pearson, 36 years old, based in Seattle, lived in Seattle. She was returning from a vacation with her husband, Rod and her two daughters Rachel, 6 and Grace, 23 months.

Flight Attendant James Ryan, 30 years old, based in Portland, lived in Redmond, WA. James was returning from a trip to Mexico with his parents, Bradford and Barbara and his brother, Terry, all from Redmond as well.

Allison Shanks with daughter Haile

Paul Pulanco, left, and his partner, Craig Pulanco. Craig was one of the flight attendants on Flight 261.

Kristin Mills, pictured with husband David

Jim Ryan

The Pearson family -- Sarah and Rodney, with daughters Grace (on her father's shoulders) and Rachel.

VALUJET AIRLINES FLIGHT 592

On May 11, 1996, the DC-9 aircraft began a normal climb, then asked air traffic control for a return to Miami and reported smoke in the cockpit and cabin. The plane disappeared from radar and was found to have crashed in uninhabited territory inside the Florida Everglades. All 110 passengers and flight crew died in the crash.

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Captain Candalyn "Candy" Kubeck, Bedford, Texas First Officer Richard "Rich" Hazen, Mieola, Texas L1 Flight Attendant Jennifer Stearns, Farmers Branch, Texas R1 Flight Attendant Lori Cushing, Austin, Texas L2 Flight Attendant Mandy Summers, Irving, Texas

Sources: AFA, CNN, Toronto Star, Europe Daily, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Seattle PI