Flight 77 - where did the passengers die ?
It is generally accepted that American Airlines Flight 77 did not fly into the Pentagon on 11th September 2001. Details of the passengers who have been identified by DNA can be found here.
Leslie a. Whittington, 45, of University Park, Md., was a professor at Georgetown University in Washington.
Whittington, her husband, Charles S. Falkenberg, and two daughters were leaving for a trip to Australia when American Flight 77 is supposed to have crashed into the Pentagon. They mailed postcards to family members from Dulles International Airport. Those postcards arrived, but no details are available on the web.
George and Ruth Koch are the parents of Ruth their 45-year-old daughter....During an interview with their local paper in 2004, Koch delicately handled eerie mementos of the crash found during cleanup: Whittington's battered driver's license. One granddaughters' luggage tag.
...... a burnt luggage tag and a wedding ring lie on a book dedicated to those lost in the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The wedding ring belonged to Ruth's daughter and the luggage tag belonged to one her granddaughters.... says the caption to the photo in the paper.
The Kochs plan to send the items to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington for inclusion in a 9/11 display.
No traces of massive titanium jet engines, and a huge jetliner survived, but a lightly toasted luggage tag and a child's ring survived.
Now if this family did not die in the Pentagon ... where did they die?
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