Mike Low isn’t in the mood to settle. His daughter, a Boston flight attendant, died in the flames of 9/11 and he’s demanding his day in court.
“I want depositions. I want testimony. I want accountability,” Low said yesterday following the news of 14 families settling out of court in lawsuits linked to the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Out of nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11, only 21 families now remain to go to trial or settle out of court with the government fund set up for victims or with airlines and airports.
Mike Low wants a court date.
“This is not an indication the end is in sight,” Low said yesterday of this week’s payouts.
It’s his duty to his daughter, he tells the Herald, to take her case to court.
“I still want to know why Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari got on a plane in Portland with box-cutters and pepper spray,” he said.
Those terrorists, to be joined by three others, slammed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center’s north tower with Low’s 28-year-old daughter, Sara Elizabeth Low, on board.
Low said he’s not changing his approach to this case because others have now settled just weeks away from the first 9/11 trial set to begin in federal court in New York City.
“We are not losing a single step in moving ahead for those who want to have their day in court,” said Don Migliori, a Rhode Island attorney in the firm Motley Rice.
Low, owner of a mining company in Arkansas, said his daughter moved to Beacon Hill just weeks before being murdered on Flight 11. He said she had a date that day in Los Angeles with one of the many men who wanted to marry her.