Paul Twaragowski

Paul Twaragowski is a 23-year-old man from Depew, New York, one of three men whose delayed flight from New Orleans on February 12, 2009, made them miss their connection home—Continental Flight 3407.ABC News: Passenger Missed Connection to Doomed Continental Flight 3407 That Killed 50 (February 14, 2009)

The construction crew from Frontier Industrial Corporation had been working on a chemical plant demolition project in New Orleans. They were headed home over the weekend, but severe weather delayed their flight for five hours. They arrived in Newark too late to catch the Continental Airlines connection.New York Daily News: Delay kept them off doomed Flight 3407 (February 14, 2009)

Twaragowski's phone was flooded with concerned messages from friends and family; Becony's wife received a phone call from him shortly after the crash made the news.New York Daily News: Delay kept them off doomed Flight 3407 (February 14, 2009)

"I am a complete believer in fate, so I am lookin' at it in a positive view, because I am a positive person. I believe for whatever reason, my name was on that ticket and that ticket number, 3407, was on that boarding pass, but for whatever reason, I wasn't meant to be on there. And I am just thankful and happy to be here."—Paul TwaragowskiABC News: Passenger Missed Connection to Doomed Continental Flight 3407 That Killed 50 (February 14, 2009)