Marwan al-Shehhi

Marwan Yousef al - Shehhi (Arabic مروان الشحي, DMG Marwan aš - Šiḥḥī, also Alshehhi or ash- Schihhi; born May 9, 1978 in Ra's al -Khaimah, United Arab Emirates; † 11 September 2001 in New York City ) was the suicide pilot who the United Airlines Flight 175 flew into the south tower of the World Trade Center in the attacks of September 11, 2001. At age 23, al - Shehhi was the youngest of the four pilots of the bombers. Like all terrorists of September 11 he was Salafist.

Time in Germany

After al - Shehhi attended school from 1996, a school in Bonn. In 1999 he moved to Hamburg and was allegedly involved there after suspicions of the investigating authorities, together with Mohammed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh in building a terrorist cell. The end of 1999, he traveled together with other later bombers to Afghanistan. There they met possibly Osama bin Laden, who allocated it the " aircraft operation." In March 2000, al - Shehhi returned to Germany.

Stay in the USA

On 29 May 2000 traveled al - Shehhi was the first of the "Hamburg Group " in the United States a. From July to December 2000, he took along with Mohammed Atta flying lessons at Huffman Aviation flight school in Venice (Florida ) and acquired on 21 December 2000 a pilot's license.

Al- Shehhi bought on 28 August 2001 at a counter of United Airlines in one of the four airports of Miami for $ 1,600 tickets for the UA Flight 175 on September 11, he paid cash. One of the tickets was for the seating position 6c.