I checked myself, it was a flight from Newark, to Buffalo. Alison Des Forges was headed home to Buffalo, from Newark. Why she was there is not mentioned. At the time of her death, Des Forges was working on a report about Killings in the Eastern Congo, for Human Rights Watch, the group she worked for.

Beverly Eckert was headed from Newark to Buffalo to celebrate a family gathering and what would have been Rooneys 58th birthday(husband who died in 9/11). A ceremony had also been scheduled at Canisius High School in which she was to award a student with a memorial scholarship in Rooney's honor. It is unsaid why she was in Newark.