On September 11, 2001, Tom Burnett (COO of Thoratec) and other passengers aboard overpowered the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, forcing the terrorists to bank and crash into an open field, killing everyone on board.
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Thoratec is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, and has manufacturing facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts;Rancho Cordova, California; Edison, New Jersey; and Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
In 2008, the building in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire to which Thoratec Europe Limited (Thoratec Corporation's European distribution arm based in Great Britain), moved its headquarters was renamed Burnett House.