Barbara Keating visited her old home in Cape Cod every summer, flying from Palm Springs, CA, where she moved after her husband died. When she boarded a flight back to California on Sept. 11, 2001, she planned for it to be her last visit — she had fewer friends left in Massachusetts, and it was a long trip.

Less than an hour after her flight, American Airlines Flight 11, took off from Boston, it was hijacked by terrorists and deliberately crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Twenty-four years after the terrorist attack, Keating and two other people killed on that day of infamy were officially identified as the 1,651st, 1,652nd and 1,653rd victims through DNA analysis, New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) announced Thursday.

Keating’s remains were

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