Pete Raffa
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 Pete Raffa  (pilot, 9-11/Premature death) | |
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| Born | Pietro Raffa 25 May 1957 Cleveland, Ohio, US |
| Died | 2 December 2001 (Age 44) |
Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Nationality | US |
An Ohio Air National Guard commander scrambled on 9/11. Dead within 3 months. | |
Lt. Col. Pietro "Pete" Raffa was the Ohio Air National Guard commander out of Toledo, Ohio, Commander of Operations, 180th Fighter Wing scrambled on 9-11.
Contents
11 September 2001
- Full article: 9-11/Flight 93
- Full article: 9-11/Flight 93
The Pentagon says he scrambled at 10:17,[citation needed] news reports from 2001 also mention this as the time of takeoff,[1][2] but eyewitness saw them at 09:00. "May have shot down the plane called Flight 93".[3]
Death
"Pietro “Pete” Raffa, the Perrysburg High School varsity boys' soccer coach and an Ohio Air National Guard commander, died of an apparent heart attack last night in St. Luke's Hospital.".[4][3]
Legacy
History of Terry Thompson Scholarship and the Pete Raffa Memorial Tournament [5]
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References
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060208215021/http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20011209&Category=NEWS28&ArtNo=112090036&Ref=AR
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181021113247/http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=180th_fighter_wing_1
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20190612072323/http://www.davessearchfortruth.com/911-15-suicide-of-witnesses saved at Archive.is
- ↑ http://www.toledoblade.com/news/deaths/2001/12/03/Perrysburg-boys-soccer-coach-dies-of-apparent-heart-attack/stories/200112030019 saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ http://nwosoa.org/scholarship/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
