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MSE astronaut among hijacked victims September 15, 2001 — Charles Edward "Chuck" Jones, a retired U.S. Air Force officer who was trained as an astronaut, was among the victims of American Airlines Flight 11 when it was piloted by hijackers into the north tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Photo credit: www.spacefacts.de Jones, who was chosen in 1982 for Group 2 of the military's Manned Spaceflight Engineers (MSE) program, was assigned to fly STS-71L scheduled for August 1987 to assist the deployment of two Department of Defense payloads. His flight however, was cancelled after the Challenger accident in January 1986. After leaving the MSE program in January 1987, Jones was stationed at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington D.C. and then as Systems Program Director for Intelligence and Information Systems, at Hanscom Air Force Base, in Bedford, Massachusetts. According to the Boston Herald, Jones boarded American Airlines Flight 11 on "a routine business trip to Los Angeles on behalf of the Nashua, N.H.-based defense contractor BAE SYSTEMS." Born on November 8, 1952, in Clinton, Indiana, Jones is survived by his wife Jeanette. back to News © 1999-2008 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. Questions? E-mail contact@collectspace.com