Charity: Widow of pilot of United Flight 93 dies

Sandy Dahl of Denver, Colorado looks at the image of her husband Pilot Jason Dahl etched on a memorial for Flight 93 crew members at the Shanksville Chapel for Flight 93 September 10, 2006 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. / Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images

(AP) DENVER - -The wife of the pilot of the United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists on 9/11 has died of what her charity said was natural causes.

Family friend David Dosch told the Denver Post that 52-year-old Sandy Dahl passed away in her sleep. The Captain Jason M. Dahl Scholarship Fund said on its website that she died near Denver. Her body was found Friday.

Dahl's husband was the captain of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

The flight was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was hijacked. The four terrorists likely wanted to crash the Boeing 757-222 into the White House or Capitol building but the jet went down in Pennsylvania as passengers fought back, just 20 minutes away from Washington, the 9/11 Commission found.

Sandy Dahl founded a scholarship fund in her husband's honor to provide funding for young pilots to receive their education. She also spoke publicly to ensure that the heroism of those aboard Flight 93 wasn't forgotten.

"Sandy's courage picked up where her husband's left off," Patrick White, president of The Families of Flight 93, said in a statement. "Her dedication to completing the Flight 93 National Memorial as a way to honor her husband's heroic actions on 9/11, and those of his fellow crew members and passengers, is a significant part of her legacy."

Jefferson County coroner's officials have confirmed her death, but the exact cause hasn't been released.

[mcmash54]

It was sad that the pilots wife died. It was a tragedy thatshe died so young,but unfortunately there are hundreds of reletive who are diyng every day that had reletives on those ifamouse planes that crashed on 9/11, are we going to have a feature on everyone of them. I Know its an impossibility, We will run one when nothing else of interest is aailiable.

[zbobowen1]

We have no idea what happened on that flight. This myth was created as part of the 9-1-2001 attack cover-up. Isn't it the one where the crash was so bad the plane parts all evaporated? This myth been demagoged so much I retch each time it's mentioned. A monument? Seriously?

And dying during sleep at 52? Wow.

But let's move along. There's nothing to see here.

[Lifesablast]

FLIGHT 93 WAS SHOT DOWN BY
USAF Pilot Major Rick Gibney one of three
F-16s scrambled from Langely
Air Force Base.

[thechooch1]

Lifesablast that is pretty good considering that there was no evidence of that in the wreckage, and no witness reports. You might check your sources.

[FormerUSMCSergeant]

Hard to imagine death at 52 being by "natural causes"....

[waitingrapture]

Poor choice of words on charity's part.