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Ziad Samir al-Jarrah (Arabic: زياد سمير جراح, romanized: Ziyād Samīr al-Jarrāḥ; 11 May 1975 – 11 September 2001) was a Lebanese terrorist hijacker.
Jarrah, a Lebanese citizen, would go on to pilot United Airlines Flight 93, intended to hit the U.S. Capitol Building. With its passengers defiant, the plane crashed in Shanksville,...
The hijacking of Flight 93 was led by Ziad Jarrah, a member of al-Qaeda. Jarrah was born in Lebanon to a wealthy family and had a secular upbringing. He intended to become a pilot and moved to Germany in 1996, enrolling at the University of Greifswald to study German.
Sep 11, 2001 · United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked by four individuals identified as Ziad Samir Jarrah, Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmed Ibrahim A. al Haznawi, and Ahmed Abdullah al Nami, armed with cutting instruments and stating that they had a box containing a bomb.
Jul 23, 2004 · As passengers charged the cockpit door, terrorist hijacker Ziad Jarrah began rolling the plane to the left and right, "attempting to knock the passengers off balance," the 9/11 commission report...
Sep 8, 2020 · On the morning of September 11, four terrorists boarded United Airlines Flight 93 at Newark International Airport: Ziad Jarrah, a trained pilot; and three others, who were trained in unarmed...
Ziad Jarrah was the was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, but intended to be flown into the Capitol or White House as the fourth of the four 9/11 plane hijackings.
Aug 19, 2021 · What’s known for sure is that at 9:55 a.m., one of its hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, a trained pilot, reset the plane’s autopilot, turning the aircraft around to head back east toward Washington.
Nov 9, 2010 · At 9:32 a.m. a hijacker, later identified as Ziad Jarrah, a trained pilot, was heard over the flight data recorder, directing the passengers to sit down and stating that there was a bomb aboard...
Sep 11, 2002 · The hijacker pilot was later identified as Ziad Jarrah, 26, a native of Lebanon who had studied flight training and aeronautics in Germany and had become part of a terrorist cell in Hamburg.
