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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Betty Ong

1956 - 2001

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Betty Ann Ong (Chinese: 鄧月薇, Taishanese Ang4 ngut4 mi3; February 5, 1956 – September 11, 2001) was an American flight attendant who worked for American Airlines and boarded Flight 11, the first airplane hijacked during the September 11 attacks. Ong was the first person to alert authorities to the hijackings taking place that day. Shortly after the hijacking, Ong notified the American Airlines ground crew of the hijacking, staying on the radiophone for 23 minutes to relay vital information that led to the closing of airspace by the FAA, a first in United States history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betty Ong has received more than 1,589,270 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Betty Ong is the 481st most popular social activist, the 8,445th most popular biography from United States and the 72nd most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Betty Ong ranks 481 out of 538Before her are James Meredith, Veerappan, Henry Spira, Fazu Aliyeva, Entisar Elsaeed, and Josefa Francisco. After her are Karen Silkwood, Yun Hyon-seok, Mohamed Bouazizi, Eoin O'Duffy, Berta Cáceres, and Ella Baker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Betty Ong ranks 362Before her are Liam Brady, Kazumi Tsubota, Adam Arkin, Rashid Nurgaliyev, Mark R. Hughes, and Desireé Cousteau. After her are Meg Whitman, Rüdiger Abramczik, Michael Harney, Jamie Dimon, Antonio Alzamendi, and Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Among people deceased in 2001, Betty Ong ranks 245Before her are Carroll O'Connor, Ann Sothern, Dipendra of Nepal, William T. Stearn, Chantal Chaudé de Silans, and Stepas Butautas. After her are Harry Winter, Kurt Hoffmann, Kim Stanley, Maximos V Hakim, Larry Adler, and Ziad Jarrah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Ong ranks 8,445 out of 18,182Before her are Abel P. Upshur (1790), George Nichols (1864), Lee Arenberg (1962), Crystal Reed (1985), Desireé Cousteau (1956), and Doc Pomus (1925). After her are Francis Ford (1881), Daniel Kinsey (1902), Richard Shelby (1934), Kirk Cameron (1970), Ernie Lively (1947), and Shelley Lubben (1968).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Betty Ong ranks 72Before her are Medgar Evers (1925), Bill Haywood (1869), Sumner Paine (1868), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Lucy Parsons (1853), and James Meredith (1933). After her are Karen Silkwood (1946), Ella Baker (1903), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Martin Luther King III (1957), Sylvia Rivera (1951), and Lillian Wald (1867).