page_title: Charles Burlingame
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Burlingame / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: The name of Charles Burlingame is seen with those of other 9/11 victims from American Airlines Flight 77 inscribed on bronze panel S-69 of the South Pool of the National September 11 Memorial in Manhattan, on December 6, 2011. This photo was created by Luigi Novi. You can see a gallery of some of my other photos here. If you have any questions, you can contact me by sending me an email or User talk:Nightscream
context_page_description: Charles Frank "Chic" Burlingame III was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, the aircraft that was crashed by terrorists into the Pentagon during the September 11 attacks.
context_section_description: Burlingame was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, with First Officer David Charlebois, before it was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. Unlike the other three flights, there were no reports of anyone being stabbed or a bomb threat and he might not have been murdered by the hijackers but shoved to the back of the plane with the rest of the passengers, according to Barbara Olson, a passenger on the flight, who asked her husband on her mobile: "What do I tell the pilot to do?" suggesting Burlingame was next to her at the back of the aircraft. He would have turned 52 the day after the incident.
  Burlingame was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. He was initially deemed ineligible for burial there due to his status as a reservist deceased at an age younger than 60, but Burlingame was given a waiver and his case triggered reform of Arlington's burial criteria. Astronaut Frank Culbertson, Burlingame's friend and classmate at the Naval Academy and who had witnessed and photographed the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks from space, played taps on his trumpet at Burlingame's memorial service.
  
  At the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Burlingame is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel S-69.
caption: Burlingame's name is located on Panel S-69 of the National September 11 Memorial's South Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 77.
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