John Ogonowski

John Ogonowski
Ogonowski's name is located on Panel N-74 of the National September 11 Memorial’s North Pool, along with those of other passengers of American Airlines Flight 11
Born	John Alexander Ogonowski (1951-02-24)February 24, 1951 Dracut, Massachusetts, US
Died	September 11, 2001(2001-09-11) (aged 50) On board American Airlines Flight 11
Nationality	American

John Alexander Ogonowski (February 24, 1951 – September 11, 2001) was an American pilot and an agricultural activist. A resident of Dracut, Massachusetts, Ogonowski was a leading advocate on behalf of farming in Massachusetts, particularly in aiding immigrant farmers from Cambodia, whom he assisted as part of the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. He was murdered by terrorists while piloting American Airlines Flight 11, which was subsequently hijacked and flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the 9/11 attacks.

Ogonowski went to secondary school at Keith Academy, Lowell, Massachusetts. He attended Lowell Technological Institute (now the University of Massachusetts Lowell), where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. He graduated in 1972 with a bachelor of science degree in Nuclear Engineering.

Ogonowski was a pilot in the U. S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Air Force base in Charleston, South Carolina, and ferry equipment to Asia and sometimes transporting the bodies of fallen in C-141 transport aircraft. He retired from the military with the rank of captain.

Ogonowski became a commercial pilot in 1978. For 23 years, he flew airplanes for American Airlines, and was a member of the Allied Pilot Association. During the course of his commercial piloting career, he met Margaret, a flight attendant who went by the nickname "Peggy", whom he later married.