Category Archives: Families in the News

FBI director slammed by 9/11 families over ‘tone-deaf’ ransomware comparison

FBI Director Christopher Wray has angered some September 11th family members, as he compared recent ransomware attacks on a meat packing plant and an oil pipeline to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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“It’s a travesty to compare the Capitol siege to 9/11,” says Debra Burlingame, sister to 9/11 pilot

Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, finds comparisons between the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed her brother and thousands of others, and the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot “profoundly disheartening.”

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Pilot records database to be established after years of action by Flight 3407 families

Flight 3407 killed 50 people in 2009. One of them was Beverly Eckert, who was headed to an event honoring her husband, Sean Rooney, who was killed in the 9/11 […]

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