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 1,736,007 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Betty Ong is the 616th most popular social activist (down from 481st in 2019), the 10,853rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,427th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Betty Ong ranks 616 out of 840. Before her are Agnès Callamard, Mario Savio, James Larkin, Rachel Corrie, Albertina Sisulu, and Robert Emmet. After her are Jan Egeland, Frances Willard, Irene Fernandez, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and Jón Páll Sigmarsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Betty Ong ranks 511. Before her are Peter Maurer, Patricio Hernández, Larry Myricks, Hiroshi Sowa, Stefan Majewski, and Sheila McCarthy. After her are Anatoly Beloglazov, Péter Besenyei, Cristina Comencini, Susanne Blakeslee, Marianne Thyssen, and Stephanie Zimbalist. Among people deceased in 2001, Betty Ong ranks 304. Before her are René Bondoux, Joyce King, Mario Bergara, Bent Hansen, Fritz Fromm, and Andy Phillip. After her are Billy Higgins, Henry Jonsson, Julie Bishop, Bertie Mee, Valerie Davies, and Jale İnan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Ong ranks 10,853 out of 20,380. Before her are Glenn Corbett (1933), William Healey Dall (1845), Kevin Chamberlin (1963), Ryan Stiles (1959), James Shaffer (1970), and Brandon Call (1976). After her are Eleanor Audley (1905), Augusta Savage (1892), Larry Black (1951), Glenn Strange (1899), John Hiatt (1952), and Eric Fleming (1925).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Betty Ong ranks 98. Before her are Ella Baker (1903), Martin Luther King III (1957), Lillian Wald (1867), Aaron Swartz (1986), Mario Savio (1942), and Rachel Corrie (1979). After her are Frances Willard (1839), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Yolanda King (1955), Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911), Lucy Burns (1879), and Angelina Grimké (1805).

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