Ziad Jarrah

Ziad Samir Jarrah (11 May 1975 – 11 September 2001) was a Lebanese man who was one of the four terrorist hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a rural area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as part of the September 11 attacks.

After growing up in Beirut and Yemen, Jarrah moved to Germany in 1996. He became involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks while attending Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in the late 1990s, meeting Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming what is now known as the Hamburg cell. Jarrah was recruited by Osama bin Laden for the attacks in 1999. He was reportedly the only hijacker who had any apprehensions about carrying out the attacks.

Jarrah arrived in the United States in June 2000. He trained at Huffman Aviation together with Atta and Al-Shehhi with their flight instructor Rudi Dekkers from June 2000 to January 2001, after relocating to Florida from New Jersey. On 7 September 2001, Jarrah flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark. Four days later, he boarded United Airlines Flight 93, and took over the aircraft along Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi and Ahmed al-Nami. Although they made an attempt to crash the plane into either the United States Capitol or the White House, their plans were thwarted when the passengers revolted against the hijackers, forcing Jarrah to crash the plane rather than cede control.