Beug was killed at the age of 48 in the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11 , 2001 attacks . At the time of her death , Carolyn Beug was working on a children 's book about Noah 's Ark which was to be told from Noah 's wife 's point of view . On the plane with her was her mother , Mary Alice Wahlstrom . Beug was survived by her twin eighteen-year-old daughters Lauren and Lindsey Mayer-Beug , her 13-year-old son , Nick , and her husband , John Beug , a senior vice president in charge of filmed production for Warner Brothers ' record division . She was returning home from taking her daughters to college at the Rhode Island School of Design
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11
Carolyn Beug