The medical examiner 's autopsy report stated that when police arrived , " Mr. Burton was lying face down with at least one individual standing on his neck . " Four months later , an episode of '' CSI : Crime Scene Investigation '' featured a plot paralleling Burton 's death , “ Unfriendly Skies ” , where five complete strangers board a plane and kill a man after believing him to be trying to take down the plane ; the episode was televised December 8 , 2000 . A year later , playwright Lucas Rockwood turned the incident into a play , '' Fifty Minutes '' , which was performed a few weeks prior to the attacks of September 11 , 2001
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September 11 attacks
Southwest Airlines Flight 1763