Mark David Rothenberg

An importer accustomed to long flights to Asia, who always flew first class and liked talking to people on the way. He had a memory for numbers like a calculator. He was flying to Taiwan by way of San Francisco, and left a wife and two daughters.

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.