Charles Edward "Chuck" Jones, a retired U.S. Air Force officer who was trained as an astronaut, was among the 92 victims of American Airlines Flight 11 when it was piloted by hijackers into the northern tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday morning, September 11.

Jones, who was chosen in 1982 for Group 2 of the military's Manned Spaceflight Engineers (MSE) program, was assigned to fly STS-71L scheduled for August 1987 to assist the deployment of two Department of Defense payloads. His flight however, was cancelled after the Challenger accident in January 1986.

After leaving the MSE program in January 1987, Jones was stationed at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington D.C. and then as Systems Program Director for Intelligence and Information Systems, at Hanscom Air Force Base, in Bedford, Massachusetts.