Summary: Lewin was sitting in seat 9B. With his Israeli military training and understanding of Arabic, he may have figured out what was going on, perhaps even tried to stop it. According to flight attendants' calls relayed to authorities on the ground, the first passenger to be killed was seated in 9B. He was stabbed to death.
Analysis:
This was a really long article so I'm going to fill y'all in because I didn't include much about Danny Lewin in the little summary from CNN. He was held in high esteem at MIT, a very talented violinist in his childhood, and extraordinary computer scientist who reinvented the internet. He died September 11, 2001 on the American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center and, as the summary said, almost certainly the first person killed in the attacks.
Response:
Imagine knowing exactly what the people hijacking the plane you're on are about to do before anyone else did and not being able to do anything about it. That was the position Danny Lewin was in on 9/11. One thing the article said at the end was all the what-ifs. A 31 year old computer genius' life cut short. He had always wanted to finish his Ph. D. His friends thought he could've gone into Israeli politics or become a household tech name like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
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