He was opening an east coast office for his public relations firm and going on to a friend's wedding. A rugby champion at Berkeley and a valued teammate of the San Francisco Fog. He overslept that morning and was the last passenger to board. He telephoned his mother to say the aircraft had been taken by men claiming to have a bomb.

Killed aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on the morning of 11 September 2001. The aircraft had left Newark forty-two minutes late, which is the only reason those aboard learned by telephone what had already happened in New York before theirs was taken. They had about thirty minutes. They voted, and they went forward at the cockpit door. The aircraft never reached what it was aimed at.