Beverly Eckert & Continental Commuter Crash
Back to adage that a hundred people who die is just a statistic, but the death of one person is a tragedy. When we can put a FACE on a traumatic event in history, like the story of one individual, it makes the life and death of all the others that was involved far more real. Such is the case with Continental Flight 3407 that killed fifty people.
It's now been verified that Beverly Eckert of Stamford, Conn., whose husband Sean Rooney died in the 2001 attacks, was one of the 50 victims of the Continental Flight 3407. Irony? Tragedy!
Her sister Sue Bourque was at the airport awaiting official confirmation that Eckert had been on board. Officials investigating the crash have not yet confirmed Eckert was among the 44 passengers killed Thursday night. "We know she was on that plane," Bourque told the Buffalo News, "and now she's with him."
Eckert became a tireless activist after Sept. 11, 2001, for a country safer from terrorism. Just last week she was at the White House with President Obama, part of a meeting he had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole to discuss how the new administration would handle terror suspects.
Obama paid tribute to Eckert in remarks before the Business Council on Friday at the White House. "Keeping with that passionate commitment, she was on her way to Buffalo to honor her husband’s birthday," Obama said. "I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the days ahead."
Then there are the stories of the other forty nine people. Federal investigators arrived in Clarence Center today to examine the smoldering wreckage of a commercial plane that crashed into a home just after 10:15 p.m. Thursday, immolating the aircraft and home and killing 50 people. The first task for the 14 investigators will be retrieving the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of the plane, which plunged into a home on Long Street.
Victims' bodies will also begin to be recovered from the site, with the aid of a medical examiner, said Steve Chealander, a National Transportation Safety Board member who arrived in the area early today to inspect the scene. And then we'll begin to hear the stories of other individual lives to give the tragedy and even more clear face of understanding.
By Ernie Fitzpatrick
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com
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