Atta took control of the plane and crashed it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center from floors 93 to 99 at 8:46 a.m. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Atta boarded American Airlines Flight 11, which he and his team then hijacked. In August 2001, Atta traveled as a passenger on several 'surveillance' flights, to establish in detail how the attacks could be carried out. Beginning in May 2001, Atta assisted with the arrival of the muscle hijackers, and in July he traveled to Spain to meet with bin al-Shibh to finalize the plot. In June 2000, Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in the United States to learn how to pilot planes, obtaining instrument ratings in November. Atta returned to Hamburg in February 2000, and began inquiring about flight training in the United States. Atta and the other Hamburg cell members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for a 'planes operation' in the United States. Atta disappeared from Germany for periods of time, embarking on the hajj in 1995 but also meeting Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan from late-1999 to early-2000. In Hamburg, Atta became involved with the al-Quds Mosque, where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, together forming the Hamburg cell. Atta was directly responsible for the deaths of more than 1,600 people during the attacks.īorn and raised in Egypt, Atta studied architecture at Cairo University, graduating in 1990, and continued his studies in Germany at the Hamburg University of Technology. Having just turned 33 at the time of the attacks, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. He was the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, which he crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks. Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta ( / ˈ æ t ɑː/ AT-ah Arabic: محمد محمد الأمير عوض السيد عطا Septem– September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian hijacker and the ringleader of the September 11 attacks in 2001 in which four United States airliners were commandeered with the intention of destroying specific civilian, military, and governmental targets. Ringleader of the September 11 attacks as the hijacker- pilot of American Airlines Flight 11

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