American Airlines Flight 77 was American Airlines’ transcontinental flight from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. The flight flew every day in the morning on this route. On September 11, 2001, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 757-223—was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists. The hijackers crashed the plane into the Pentagon on purpose. The crash was part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers w

Betty Ong was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was hijacked on September 11, 2001. With chaos unfolding around her, she made a call to her colleagues on the ground, providing information that helped investigators identify the hijackers and understand what was happening. Everyone on the flight died. After a long struggle, her friend, pastor Norman Wong, managed to get a community centre in San Francisco renamed in her honour. | Online Adverts WEST Africa | Facebook