She made the historic first call from a hijacked plane on 9/11. 25 years later, her family met the woman who answered.

25 years after 9/11, woman who took Betty Ong’s fateful call meets her family

Elizabeth Cook reports.

She made the historic first call from a hijacked plane on 9/11. 25 years later, her family met the woman who answered.

An American Airlines reservations agent who took Betty Ong's historic 9/11 call recalls the flight attendant's bravery.

9/11: The Flight Attendants Who Spent Their Final Moments Helping Identify The Hijackers

Flight attendant Betty Ong spent the final moments of her life helping authorities identify the men who had hijacked the flight she was on — American Airlines Flight 11 — on September 11, 2001. Ong, a San Francisco native who worked out of Boston’s Logan International Airport, had been on the job for 14 years and worked the rear cabin as the No. 3 flight attendant. She was aboard the Los Angeles-bound flight with 81 passengers and 10 other crew …

Never Forget Betty: Remembering the Flight Attendant Who Made the First 9/11 Call

25 years after the historical 9/11 terrorist attack, Harry Ong, the brother of the flight attendant who made the first reported call of the hijacking, still gets anxious as the anniversary approaches.  “As September 11th approaches each and every year, the tension just builds up and the stress, sometimes debilitation, we never forget,” said Ong. […]