Edward P. Felt

Edward Porter Felt (November 9, 1959 – September 11, 2001) was a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on his way to a business meeting in San Francisco. It is believed that Felt made one of the last calls to 911 immediately prior to the fatal crash of the jetliner. He was survived by his wife, Sandy, and two daughters, Adrienne and Kathryn. November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... United Airlines Flight 93 was a Boeing 757-222, N591UA, flight that regularly flew from Newark International Airport (now known as Newark Liberty International Airport) in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport continuing on to Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on a different aircraft. ... 9-1-1 (nine-one-one) is the emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). ...

Felt worked for BEA Systems at the time, which issued a press release following his death: BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company that specializes in application infrastructure software. ...

The BEA family has suffered the tragic loss of two of its employees. Ed Felt, one of our first employees, best engineers, and most respected and loved colleagues, died in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93. Ed, a senior architect based in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, was one of the original members of the BEA Tuxedo team, and was instrumental in making that product so successful. In fact, this past August Ed was awarded a U.S. Patent for "Method of Authentication Based on Intersection of Password Sets". He was a mentor and friend to many of us, and an inspiration to all.

BEA later named one of their office buildings after Felt. Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. ...

Final Call

At 9:58 am, Felt called 911 on his cell phone and reached an operator in Westmoreland County. "We're being hijacked. We're being hijacked," he told John Shaw, as the plane passed over Mt. Pleasant Township. Felt told the operator that he'd locked himself in the bathroom. It is believed that he may have been part of a group of passengers who were herded into the rear of the plane. The call lasted one minute and 10 seconds. At 10:06 am, the airplane crashed into the ground, killing all aboard.

Biography

Felt, 41, of Matawan, New Jersey, was a technology director for BEA Systems, specializing in cryptography and encryption systems. He earned a bachelor's degree from Colgate University (1981) and a master's degree from Cornell University (1983). He was a native of Utica, New York and a member of the Matawan United Methodist Church. He had lived in Matawan for the past 20 years. Matawan is a borough located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company that specializes in application infrastructure software. ... The German Lorenz cipher machine, used in World War II for encryption of very high-level general staff messages. ... In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ... Colgate in mid-August, towards the end of Summer. ... This is about the university. ... Utica, New York is a city the State of New York and the county seat of Oneida County. ... Matawan is a borough located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ...

External links

• [1] September 11, 2001 Victims web page for Ed Felt
• [2] San Francisco Bay Area Flight 93 Memorial page for Ed Felt
• [3] Passenger: Edward Porter Felt, Post-Gazette, October 28, 2001
• [4] Felt reaches 911 just before crash, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 8, 2002
• [5] Method of authentication based on intersection of password sets, Patent No. 6,128,742, October 2000
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