Terror attack widow loses father in plane crash

The widow of a firefighter who died in the World Trade Centre attack lost her father in the American Airlines crash in Queens.

Just two days after Naomi Gullickson attended a memorial service for her husband Joseph she was forced to start planning for the funeral of her father Jose Perez.

He died after the Airbus A300 crashed into New York on Monday.

"I can't believe the two men I love most in the world are gone," she told the New York Daily News.

"Every day I spent wishing for Joe to come back from the rubble, I had my father there for me. Now he's gone too."

The mother-of-two had been comforted by her father at the packed memorial service for Mr Gullickson at Staten Island on Saturday where he had also wept tears for his beloved son-in-law.

Mr Gullickson, 37, had spent 13 years working for the New York Fire Department, a job he was devoted to.

The couple had been together for eight years when he died trying to help people trapped after hijacked planes smashed into the World Trade Centre twin towers on September 11.

Mr Perez, 73, was due to spend a week at his second home in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic to recover from the shock of the terror attacks.

Mrs Gullickson said that since the crash on Monday her young daughter keeps asking: "Why is everybody dying?".