Crew:

In Florida, Pastor Allen Burner of First Baptist Church of Lutz, said the plane's pilot, Capt. Marvin Renslow, 47, was a loving father and husband.

In a statement to the media he read for Renslow's family, Burner said, "They want you to know that their faith is that God is solvent, that God is in control even when it seems that everything is out of control.

"They are very proud of Marvin's accomplishments as a pilot," Burner said. "They know that he did everything that he could to save as many lives as he could."

Rebecca Lynne Shaw, first officer, of Maple Valley, Wash., was just 24 years old, yet she'd logged more than 2,200 hours of flight time, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.

Her brother Bill Morris said, "She was perfect, the perfect little sister.

Her mother Lyn Morris said flying was Rebecca's passion. "She was light, she loved to fly … any time she could be in the air."

Shaw graduated in 2002 from Tahoma High School, where she was active in volleyball, softball and student leadership, district spokesman Kevin Patterson said. She attended Big Bend Community College before transferring to Central Washington University in Ellensburg. She graduated in 2007 with a degree in flight technology, university spokeswoman Teri Olin said.

Flight attendant Matilda Quintero, 56, of Woodbridge, N.J., began working with Colgan Air only last year.

Her brother, Sal Poidomani of Iselin, N.J., said she was very excited about her new career: "When she got her wings, she was really excited. She told me how tough the school was. She called me almost every day from Albany, she was at school several weeks. She just loved it. Absolutely loved it."

Quintero was a breast cancer survivor. Her family and friends say she wanted a little adventure in her life while she was able to spend more time with her family.

Neighbor Alison Eckert told The Home News Tribune of East Brunswick that Quintero "always looked on the bright side" and left behind a mother in her 90s, and two grown daughters - one who lived with her and her mother, and another in Morris County.

Donna Prisco, flight attendant.

Capt. Joseph Zuffoletto, 27, a pilot, loved flying from an early age and earned his private pilot's license at 17.

He spent his spare time at the Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport, even when he wasn't flying.

"We had a small restaurant here at the airport that was understaffed," Dave Sanctuary, the airport manager, told the Post-Journal of Jamestown, N.Y. "He would come in many times when he was not on duty flying and would volunteer cooking at the restaurant. He was very kind, very professional, very likable."

Zuffoletto was off-duty, traveling to visit his grandmother, near Buffalo. Helen Nicotra remembered her grandson as someone who loved to fly, and who died doing what he loved.

"It was his life," she said.

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Passengers:

Mary Abraham, a retired Army Reserve first sergeant, had worked at Invacare Corp., a medical-device manufacturer, for about 12 years.

Co-worker and good friend Marc Schwartz remembered Abraham for her outspokenness and said that on more than one occasion, she climbed up onto a table at a business meeting to make a point more persuasively.

"That was Mary. She was passionate," Schwartz told The Buffalo News.

Most recently, Abraham was training people to use the company's products in the region stretching from Maine to New Jersey.

Abraham, 44, worked from her home in West Seneca, N.Y., where she had moved to be closer to her parents, and frequently traveled for her job. She also was a greyhound rescuer and a member of a women's motorcycle club, according to Schwartz.

Schwartz said he dropped her off at the airport Thursday afternoon, gave her a hug and kiss and said goodbye. He learned the awful news about Flight 3407 the next morning.

"Everybody that knew her loved her. She had such a strong personality," Schwartz said.

David Borner, 49, of North Tonawanda, N.Y., worked for Kraft Foods and was returning from a business trip with a co-worker. Borner was to meet his family and then leave with them Friday for a cruise in Florida.

He loved the outdoors and fishing, said his sister-in-law, Karen Hannah.

"He was very involved with his children," his neighbor Ruth Belling told The Buffalo News. "It's just so tragic."

Borner's daughter, Nicole, a high school senior, was looking forward to playing soccer at Binghamton University, according to the Buffalo News. His son, Michael, is in eighth-grade.

"I was supposed to drive him to the airport" for his trip to Florida, another neighbor, Richard E. Ganter, told the newspaper. "I called Cheryl (Borner's wife), and she told me what happened. I was very stunned."

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Alison Des Forges (left) of Buffalo, was senior adviser for Human Rights Watch's Africa division. Considered one of the world's leading experts on the genocide in Rwanda, Des Forges testified at 11 trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as an expert witness. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999.

Des Forges was returning home to Buffalo after a trip to Europe, where she had briefed diplomats on the situation in Rwanda and Africa's Great Lakes region, said Emma Daly, spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch. She sent an e-mail to colleagues from the airport before boarding the plane.

"She was working till the end," Daly said.

Des Forges had a "tremendous commitment to human rights and her tremendous principles," Daly said.

A Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief over the loss of her husband on that black day to good use, trying to make the country safer, Beverly Eckert had met with President Barack Obama just last week at the White House to discuss how the new administration would handle terror suspects.

"She was an inspiration to me and to so many others. I pray her family can find peace and comfort," the president said.

"She was such an important part of all of our work," said Mary Fetchet, another 9/11 family activist. She learned Eckert was aboard the plane from another close Eckert family friend now headed to Buffalo.

Eckert, who was flying to Buffalo to celebrate what would have been her husband Sean Rooney's 58th birthday. He worked at Aon Corp., a risk management firm, at the 98th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower.

She cried when she would tell the story about how her husband - who was her high school sweetheart - called her on the morning of the attacks, and told her he loved her just before there was a loud explosion and nothing more.

Eckert was part of a small group of Sept. 11 widows, mothers, and children who became amateur lobbyists, ultimately forcing lawmakers in 2004 to pass sweeping reforms of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.

John J. Fiore, 59, of Grand Island, N.Y., had recently retired from the U.S. Air Force reserves as a senior master sergeant, according to fellow members of Grand Island Moose Lodge No. 180. The flight was the final leg of his vacation to China.

Fiore, a father of two, served more than 30 years in the Air Force and two years with the U.S. Marine Corp. He had done tours of duty during the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm and two separate tours during the Iraq War.

The lodge's treasurer, Rick Halas, said Fiore was a very dedicated and active member.

Fiore also was active in several veterans groups, including the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, according to The Tonawanda News.

"There's not a better friend," Duane Frost, a longtime friend, told the newspaper. "There's not a better man. He did so much work for the legion and the veterans organizations. He was just a standup guy."

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I am having all kinds of problems posting. This link has pretty good writes on those killed on Colgan flight.

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"Donald Mossop, his wife Dawn Mossop, and their only child, 12-year-old Shawn Mossop were on their way to visit relatives in Canada. Dawn's sister, Ferris Reid (pictured right), a visiting nurse also of Bloomfield, accompanied them."

A 12 yr old child.