Flight 11

Airlines Flight 11, en route from Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center with 81 passengers and 11 crew on board.

Carolyn Beug

Not only had Santa Monica filmmaker and video producer Carolyn Beug, 48, won an award for her work on the ‘90s Van Halen video “Right Now,” she was writing a children’s book. It was to have been the story of Noah’s Ark, told from the point of view of Noah’s wife.

In her North 25th Street neighborhood where she lived in a Tudor-style home, Beug was a popular figure. She hosted an annual backyard barbecue for the Santa Monica High School girls track team. Her twin daughters, Lauren and Lindsey Mayer-Beug, 18, served as team captains.

Their mother was their most fervent cheerleader, attending every meet in a Santa Monica High School warmup suit. She also shared her home with a 13-year-old son, Nicky, and a husband, John Beug, a senior vice president in charge of filmed production for Warner Bros.’ record division.

“She was so proud of her twins. Carolyn did everything with great gusto and passion. She was always thinking of something fun for her kids to do to enjoy life,” said film producer Denise Di Novi, her next-door neighbor. “She would get up and mountain-bike for 20 miles at 5 in the morning. She had so much energy.”

Beug was seated on American Airlines Flight 11 with her mother, Mary Alice Wahlstrom, 75, a Utah resident. She was returning home from taking her twins to college at Rhode Island School of Design.

Doug Stone

Stone, 54, a Dover, N.H., print shop owner, may have made his home on the East Coast, but he lived much of his life in Los Angeles. Every few weeks, he flew here to visit his son, Zach, his ex-wife, Beth, and a business associate.

A native New Englander with a dry sense of humor, Stone graduated from Cal State Long Beach but returned east in the late 1980s after he divorced.

“He’s been my best friend for 25 years,” said Beth Stone. “We just couldn’t be married.”

On his frequent trips to Los Angeles, he watched Zach, a Fountain Valley High School graduate, compete in track and cross-country.

On this trip, he was coming back to see his son off to UCLA.

“He was a really honest, straightforward person,” said Zach, who is starting his freshman year. “I used to tell people that he wasn’t a fake person. He told you what he thought.”

James and Mary Trentini

The Trentinis, who lived in Rowley, Mass., were headed to Irvine to visit their grown daughter, her husband and three grandchildren.

James, 65, was a retired high school teacher, administrator and coach. Mary, 67, was a retired administrative assistant to a high school athletic director. Their children were scattered coast to coast: a son in Florida and two daughters in Massachusetts, as well as their daughter, Patti Trentini, in Irvine. They had four grandchildren.

The night before the flight, Mary and Patti, 41, a nurse at Hoag Memorial Medical Center in Newport Beach, chatted lightly about what they planned to do. Mary was carting an extra suitcase filled for with toys and clothes she had made for her daughter’s children, ages 2, 3 and 7.