American Airlines Flight 965 - Notable Passengers

Notable Passengers

• Francisco Ferre Malaussena, Mariana Gomez de Ferre, and Felipe Antonio Ferre Gomez, the son, daughter-in-law, and grandson of former Miami mayor Maurice Ferre.
• Paris Kanellakis, a computer scientist at Brown University, died with wife María Teresa Otoya and children Alexandra and Stephanos.
• The survivors are Gonzalo Dussan Monroy, Michelle Dussan, Mercedes Ramirez, and Mauricio Reyes. Gonzalo "Gonzalito" Dussan, Jr., Michelle Dussan's brother and Gonzalo Dussan's son, was initially found alive but died on the operating table due to internal injuries. Gonzalo Dussan did not receive insurance benefits from the death of his companion and the mother of his children, Nancy Delgado, as Delgado and Dussan were not legally married. Ramirez is a central character in Exit Row: The True Story of an Emergency Volunteer, a Miraculous Survivor and the Crash of Flight 965 by Tammy L. Kling.
• Crews found a small brown dog alive, inside a carrier in the cargo hold. The dog was adopted by the Red Cross team in Cali, Colombia, for a few weeks (they renamed him "Milagro", which is Spanish for "miracle"), then an American Airlines employee who had worked the crash recovery in Cali adopted the dog and brought it to the United States.

The U.S. encountered difficulty while trying to distinguish Americans from non-Americans, as many passengers held dual citizenships.