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4 unusual facts about Tom Burnett


Communication during the September 11 attacks

Passengers and crew who made calls include: Sandra Bradshaw, Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Peter Hanson, Jeremy Glick, Barbara K. Olson, Renee May, Madeline Amy Sweeney, Betty Ong, Robert Fangman, Brian David Sweeney, and Ed Felt.

David Weild IV

The two men he was there to open the markets with were partners with Tom Burnett, one of the men who helped to take down United Airlines Flight 93 before it struck Washington, DC.

Thoratec

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.

Tom Burnett

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.



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