ABSTRACT
Leaving JFK for Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 33. The flight departs from the international terminal, the same terminal Flight 587 left from. Looking up at the monitors, I see its replacement, Flight 619. It now departs at 8:30, a half hour later. There will never be another Flight 11, 77, or 587. As we taxi to the runway, a Japan Airlines 747 crosses our path. It may be the same 747 in whose wake Flight 587 became entangled. When I see “JAL” across the fuselage, I can’t help but think of Joseph, Anthony, and Lily—the three members of the Lopes family who have been taken from us.
