Atta’s actions on a different day may have been forgotten. On Aug 9, 2001, he booked a first-class ticket from Portland to Boston online.
Mohammad Atta is a name that will live on in infamy. Atta, a 33-year-old Egyptian engineer, was the oldest in the team of suicide bombers that hijacked airliners on Sept 11, 2001. He acted as the ringleader for this unique atrocity.
The planes were used as battering rams on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and sparked a global war on terror.
