All of these statements are true about Harriet Quimby except: Three months after her daring flight across the English ChannelQuimby and her passenger died in an airplane accident near Boston. Because neither of them wore a seat belt, they were both thrown to their deaths . After keeping her plan a secret so that no one might beat her to it, she was the first woman to fly across the English Channel After landing safely on a beach in France, people on both sides of the Atlantic celebrated her amazing flight across the English Channel . New York City had a ticker-tape parade, and she received the key to the city . She was the first American women to become a licensed pilot