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Remembering 9/11 hero Betty Ong, a San Francisco Chinatown native

Betty Ann Ong was a 45-year-old Chinese American head flight attendant working aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Betty was the first person to alert authorities about the terrorist attacks on 9/11. She was working extra shifts so she could afford a vacation to Hawaii with her sister. At 8:20a on Sept. 11, 2001, Betty called ground employees saying, “The cockpit is not answering. Somebody’s stabbed in business class, and, um, I think there’s Mace and we can’t breathe. I don’t know, I think we a

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