Timoner's death in 2021 under California's End of Life Option Act was filmed by his daughter and formed the basis of the feature documentary Last Flight Home.

[3] Eli Timoner was raised in Woodmere, Long Island and earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Miami in 1950.

[5] After working as a Bloomingdale's management trainee for a year in New York following graduation,[6] Timoner borrowed $100,000 to purchase a controlling interest in Laura Lee Candies.

[4] Giffen Industries was a publicly-held regional roofing company based in Miami when Timoner joined the board in 1961 to start a turnaround process.

[8] He quickly moved to expand the company by creating two subsidiaries, Giffen Roofing and Giffen-Bird Realty, both based in Miami.

By 1968, the company's headcount had grown from 300 to nearly 3,000 and Timoner, as president and chairman, personally held stock valued in excess of $14 million.

[12] By 1969, Timoner was earning a salary of $42,000 as the president of Giffen[13] and set out to purchase a controlling stake in Keller Industries for $60 a share in a transaction valued at $50 million.

[20] On the afternoon of January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and into the Potomac River, killing 78.

[22] Facing significant health challenges following the stroke, Timoner retired from Air Florida the following year and was replaced by former American Airlines executive Donald Lloyd-Jones.

[2] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Timoner was very active in the greater Miami business community serving as a director of the executive committee of the National Children's Cardiac Hospital, a member of the Young Presidents Organizations, a director of the Philharmonic Society Inc., and a member of the advisory board of the Pan American Bank of Miami.

[33] Following Sundance, MTV Documentary Films acquired the worldwide rights to Last Flight Home and released it theatrically in the fall of 2022.