# Mohamed Atta

> He piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower on September 11, 2001, killing more than 1,600 people in the single deadliest terrorist attack in history. The Egyptian architect turned al-Qaeda operative was the oldest of the nineteen hijackers and the ringleader who coordinated the plot.

*Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968-2001)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/mohamed-atta

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Egypt
- **Born:** 1968-09-01
- **Died:** 2001-09-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Egypt in 1968, Atta studied architecture at Cairo University and later pursued postgraduate work at Hamburg University of Technology. At Hamburg's al-Quds Mosque he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, forming what became known as the Hamburg cell. Between 1995 and early 2000 he disappeared from Germany for stretches, meeting Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, where he and the Hamburg members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for a "planes operation" in the United States. He returned to Hamburg in February 2000, then arrived in the U.S. that June with Jarrah and al-Shehhi to train as pilots, earning his commercial license by December. Through the summer of 2001 he coordinated the arrival of the "muscle" hijackers, met bin al-Shibh in Spain in July to finalize details, and flew surveillance missions in August. On the morning of September 11, 2001, at age thirty-three, he flew Flight 11 into 1 World Trade Center.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 79.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 20.9 / 100  (trend: LEGACY)
- **Historical depth:** 53.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 16.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4677730/ (@nm4677730)

## Sources
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- [Mohammed Atta](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Atta)
- [Атта, Мухаммед](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4)
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- [Mohamed Atta](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Atta)
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