Olson was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 on her way to a taping of '' Politically Incorrect '' in Los Angeles , when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks . Her original plan had been to fly to California on September 10 , but she waited until the next day so that she could wake up with her husband on his birthday , September 11 . Bill Maher , host of '' Politically Incorrect '' , left a panel chair empty for a week in her memory . At the National September 11 Memorial , Olson 's name is located on Panel S-70 of the South Pool , along with those of other passengers of Flight 77
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Barbara Olson