The industry responded with new technologies and techniques to identify and mitigate security risks before a flight even leaves the ground. And airline pilots have had a crucial role in these enhanced security measures over the past 17 years.
As we do each year, pilots and staff are gathered this morning in ALPA’s 9/11 Remembrance Garden to pay tribute to the crewmembers and passengers of American Flight 11, American Flight 77, United Flight 93, and United Flight 175. Our thoughts today are especially with those who are remembering fallen colleagues, friends, and family.
We continue to honor the memory of those we lost with every safe landing made and by working to keep the skies safer and more secure than at any time previous to that dark day. We owe them no less.
A wall inside the National September 11 Memorial in New York reads: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”
In Memoriam:
United Flight 93
Capt. Jason Dahl
F/O LeRoy Homer, Jr.
Flight Attendant Lorraine Bay
Flight Attendant Sandra Bradshaw
Flight Attendant Wanda Green
Flight Attendant CeeCee Lyles
Flight Attendant Deborah Welsh
United Flight 175
Capt. Victor Saracini
F/O Michael Horrocks
Flight Attendant Robert Fangman
Flight Attendant Amy Jarret
Flight Attendant Amy King
Flight Attendant Kathryn Laborie
Flight Attendant Alfred Marchand
Flight Attendant Michael Tarrou
Flight Attendant Alicia Titus
Customer Service Representative Marianne MacFarlane
Customer Service Representative Jesus Sanchez
American Flight 11
Capt. John Ogonowski
F/O Thomas McGuinness
Flight Attendant Barbara Arestegui
Flight Attendant Jeffrey Collman
Flight Attendant Sara Low
Flight Attendant Karen Martin
Flight Attendant Kathleen Nicosia
Flight Attendant Betty Ong
Flight Attendant Jean Roger
Flight Attendant Dianne Snyder
Flight Attendant Madeline “Amy” Sweeney
American Flight 77
Capt. Charles Burlingame
F/O David Charlebois
Flight Attendant Michele Heidenberger
Flight Attendant Jennifer Lewis
Flight Attendant Kenneth Lewis
Flight Attendant Renee May