The twin towers burning during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
The twin towers burning during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Thirty-four residents of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Riverside counties were killed on Sept. 11 on the four airplanes, in the World Trade Center and in the Pentagon.

On American Airlines flight 11, bound from Boston to Los Angeles International Airport, the following persons were killed in the first plane crash in New York City:

— David Angell, 54, Pasadena;

— Lynn Angell, 45, Pasadena;

— Seima Aoyama, 48, Culver City;

— Caroline Beug, 48, Los Angeles;

— Edmond Glazer, 41, Los Angeles;

— Andrew Peter Charles Curry-Green, 34, Santa Monica;

— John A. Hofer, 45, Los Angeles;

— Barbara Keating, 72, Palm Springs;

— Daniel John Lee, 34, Van Nuys;

— Laurie Ann Neira, 48, Los Angeles;

— Thomas Pecorelli, 31, Los Angeles;

— Berinthia Berenson Perkins, 53, Los Angeles;

— Xavier Juarez, 41, Chino Hills;

— Pendyala Vamsikrishna, 30, Los Angeles; and

— John Wenckus, 46, Torrance.

On American Airlines Flight 77, bound from Washington to Los Angeles, the following persons were killed at the Pentagon:

— Yeneneh Betru, 35, Burbank;

— Stanley Hall, 68, Rancho Palos Verdes;

— Lisa Frost, 22, Rancho Santa Margarita;

— Chandler Keller, 29, El Segundo;

— Dora Menchaca, 45, Santa Monica;

— Christopher Newton, 38, Anaheim;

— Ruben Ornedo, 39, Los Angeles; and

— Robert Penniger, 63, Poway.

On United Airlines flight 175, bound from Boston to Los Angeles, the following people were killed in the second plane crash in New York City:

— Touri Bolourchi, 69, Beverly Hills;

— Daniel Brandhorst, 41, Los Angeles;

— David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst, 3, Los Angeles;

— Dorothy Alma DeAraujo, 80, Long Beach;

— Ronald Gamboa, 33, Los Angeles;

— Gerald Hardacre, 61, Carlsbad;

— Maclovio Lopez Jr., 41, Norwalk;

— Marie Pappalardo, 53, Paramount; and

— Timothy Ward, 38, San Diego.

On United Airlines flight 93, bound from Newark to San Francisco, Deora Frances Bodley, 20, of San Diego was killed as it crashed in Pennsylvania.

At the Pentagon, Melissa Rose Barnes, 27, of Redlands was killed. Lt. Col. Dean E. Mattson was also killed there, the Department of Defense has said he was from California but did not specify his hometown.

–City News Service

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