September 11 attacks

Wikipedia has extensive articles on the September 11 (9/11) attacks in 2001. This article focuses on the Armenian related aspects.

Armenian deaths

Names of Armenians who perished during the attack on the twin towers:

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  Carl John Bedigian (first responder)

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  Aram Iskenderian, Jr.

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  Alysia Christine Burton Basmajian

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  Garo H. Voskerijian

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  Peter Edward Mardikian

Mick Hovsepian's message

Mick Hovsepian was a dispatcher at American Airlines. He quickly sent out an ACARS message that he hastily wrote to his crews when everything was going down and sent to the printer attached to the aircraft’s flight management computer.

TO ALL CAPTAINS AND CREW SECURITY MUST BE AT TOP OF THE LIST ALL NEW YORK AIR SPACE IS CLOSED AAL ACFT HAVE BE HI-JACKED THIS MORNING AND MAY HAVE BEEN FORCED DOWN WE HAVE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT UAL IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WE ARE ST0PING ALL TRAFFIC TO THE NEW YORK AREA CNN SAYS THEY HAVE REPORTS FROM AIR CANNADA ALS0 HAS A PRBLM TWO ACFT HAVE BEEN FLOW INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTERPLEASE ALL OF YOU BE ON HI ALERT KEEP US POSTED ON YOU SITUATION AND GOD BLESS YOU THERE IS WORD THAT THE INTIRE ATC SYSTEM MAY BE SHUT DOWN
FD09 MICK HOVSEPIAN PLZ ACK MSG NO 3330
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