Ziad Jarrah Net Worth

Background and career

Ziad Samir Jarrah (May 11, 1975 – September 11, 2001) was a Lebanese engineering student and terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. He was one of four hijackers who hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks. The flight, which was traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew attempted to regain control of the aircraft, preventing the hijackers from reaching their intended target.

Jarrah was born in a secular and wealthy family living in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. In 1996, he moved to Germany to study aerospace engineering at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. In Hamburg, he became part of a clandestine cell system known as the Hamburg cell with fellow hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, among many others. In 1999, member Ramzi bin al-Shibh took the cell to Afghanistan to meet al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, where they were instructed to receive flight training. In 2000, Jarrah enrolled in a flight school in Florida.

In September 2001, Jarrah, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Saeed al-Ghamdi boarded Flight 93 at Newark International Airport. Mid-flight, they took control of the cockpit, injuring or killing the pilots, and Jarrah began flying it towards Washington, D.C. His group likely planned to crash the flight into either the U.S. Capitol or the White House. Their plan was thwarted when the passengers then tried storming the cockpit to take back the plane, which caused it to crash in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone on board who was still alive.