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((Short description|Emirati terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)))
((Use dmy dates|date=September 2023))((Use American English|date=September 2023))
((More citations needed|date=February 2015))
((Infobox person
| name               = Marwan al-Shehhi
| native_name        = مروان الشحي
| spouse             = Fawzeya al-Shehhi
| image              = Marwan al-Shehhi.jpg
| birth_date         = ((birth date|1978|05|09|df=yes))
| birth_name         = Marwan Yousef Mohamed<br />Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi
| birth_place        = [[Al Qusaidat]], [[Ras Al Khaimah]],<br />[[United Arab Emirates]]
| death_date         = ((death-date and age|11 September 2001|9 May 1978))
| death_place        = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. aboard [[United Airlines Flight 175|Flight 175]]
| death_cause        = [[Suicide attack|Suicide]] by [[United Airlines Flight 175|plane crash]] ([[September 11 attacks]])
| alma_mater         = ((unbulleted list|[[University of Bonn]]|[[Hamburg University of Technology|Hamburg U. of Technology]]))
| known_for          = being the [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacker]] [[Aircraft pilot|pilot]] of [[United Airlines Flight 175]]           in the [[September 11 attacks|9/11 attacks]]
| height             = ((convert|5|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on|order=flip))
| nationality        = [[Emirati people|Emirati]]
| signature          = Marwan Alshehhi's Driver License Transaction Page (cropped to signature).png
))

'''Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi''' (((lang-ar|مروان يوسف محمد رشيد لكراب الشحي|translit=Marwān Yūsuf Muḥammad Rashīd Likrāb al-Shiḥḥī)); 9 May 1978((spaced en dash))11 September 2001) was an [[United Arab Emirates|Emirati]] terrorist hijacker from [[al-Qaeda]] who served as the hijacker-pilot of [[United Airlines Flight 175]], crashing the [[Boeing 767]] into the [[List of tenants in Two World Trade Center|South Tower]] of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] as part of the [[September 11 attacks|11 September attacks]] in 2001. He was one of five [[Hijackers in the September 11 attacks|hijackers]] aboard the aircraft and one of two Emiratis to take part in the attacks, the other being [[Fayez Banihammad]], who helped him hijack the same plane.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf|title=The 9/11 Commission Report|page=162|access-date=2016-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019203222/https://9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf|archive-date=2016-10-19|url-status=dead))</ref>

Al-Shehhi was a student from the [[United Arab Emirates]] who moved to Germany in 1996 and soon became close friends with [[Mohamed Atta]], [[Ziad Jarrah]] and [[Ramzi bin al-Shibh]], forming the [[Hamburg cell]]. Together, after pledging their lives to martyrdom, they became the leaders of the 11 September attacks. In late 1999, al-Shehhi, Atta, Jarrah, and bin al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in [[Afghanistan]] and met with [[Osama bin Laden]] who recruited the four Hamburg cell members for the attacks in the United States. He arrived in the [[United States]] in May 2000, one month before Atta. Atta, Al-Shehhi, and Jarrah had been trained as pilots in [[Florida]] at [[Huffman Aviation]], receiving their [[Commercial Pilot Licence|commercial pilot licenses]] in December 2000 and January 2001 from the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]].

Al-Shehhi spent his time making preparations for the attack itself, such as meeting with crucial [[Planning of the September 11 attacks|planners]] abroad, assisting with the arrival of hijackers aboard the other flights, and travelling on surveillance flights determining details on how the hijacking would take place. On 9 September 2001, he traveled from [[Florida]] to [[Boston]], where he stayed at the Milner Hotel until 11 September. After boarding [[United Airlines Flight 175]] at [[Logan International Airport]], al-Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make their attack, which then allowed al-Shehhi to take over control as pilot, and at 9:03&nbsp;a.m., 17 minutes after [[Mohamed Atta]] crashed [[American Airlines Flight 11]] into the [[List of tenants in 1 World Trade Center (1971–2001)|North Tower]], Al-Shehhi crashed the [[Boeing 767#767-200|Boeing 767]] into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between floors 77 to 85.<ref name="ntsb">((cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/foia/9_11/Flight_Path_Study_UA175.pdf|title=Flight Path Study – United Airlines Flight 175|access-date=11 September 2014|work=National Transportation Safety Board|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023122449/http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/foia/9_11/Flight_Path_Study_UA175.pdf|archive-date=2011-10-23|url-status=live))</ref> At 23 years of age, he was the youngest hijacker-pilot to participate in the attacks. The impact of the Boeing 767 into the South Tower was seen live on television as it happened. At 9:59&nbsp;a.m., after 56 minutes of burning, the 110-story skyscraper collapsed, killing hundreds of people, including around 900 office workers and first responders.

==Early life==
Al-Shehhi was born in [[Ras al-Khaimah]], on 9 May 1978, in the [[United Arab Emirates]], to an Emirati Muslim cleric who died in 1997 and an [[Egypt]]ian mother. Described as a quiet and devout Muslim, details about al-Shehhi's life in the UAE, however, are difficult to acquire. He was a part of the [[Shihuh|Shihuh]] tribe through his father's side. According to an October 2001 article in ''The New York Times'', "If residents of Mr. Shehhi's hometown had heard of him before now, they were certainly not telling strangers. Four hours spent in the community yielded no address and no one – policemen, firemen, pedestrians or local officials – who did anything more than shrug at the mention of his name."<ref>((Citation|title=Manasseh, "Who Did More Evil than All . . . Who Were Before Him"|work=Portrait of the Kings|pages=187–224|publisher=Augsburg Fortress Publishers|isbn=9781451469585|doi=10.2307/j.ctt9m0txn.10|year=2015))</ref>

His teacher in Germany, Gabriele Bock, recalls him as someone who seemed to be struggling to have plans for the future while studying there.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/vita-des-attentaeters-marwan-al-shehhi-auffaellig-war-nur-seine-unauffaelligkeit-a-161098.html|title = Vita des Attentäters Marwan al-Shehhi: Auffällig war nur seine Unauffälligkeit|newspaper = Der Spiegel|date = 6 October 2001|last1 = Gebauer|first1 = Matthias))</ref>

While in Germany, al-Shehhi enrolled in the [[University of Bonn]] after completing a German course. He left Germany in June 1997 to attend to problems at home although the university forbade him. In early 1998, al-Shehhi transferred to the [[Technical University of Hamburg]]. A poor student, al-Shehhi was directed by the Scholarship program administrators to repeat a semester of his studies back in Bonn beginning in August 1998. Al-Shehhi did not enroll back at Bonn until January 1999 and continued to struggle with his studies. By July 1999, Marwan returned to Hamburg to study shipbuilding.<ref>[http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf The 9/11 Commission Report] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019203222/https://9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf |date=2016-10-19 )) p. 179</ref>

It has been reported al-Shehhi also married in 1999, holding a belated celebration in January 2000, in an arranged marriage by his half-brother with a young woman named Fawzeya.<ref>((Cite news |last=Kessler |first=Glenn |date=2021-12-07 |title=Trump's false claim that the 9/11 hijackers' wives 'knew exactly what was going to happen' |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/12/06/trumps-dubious-claim-that-the-911-hijackers-wives-knew-exactly-what-was-going-to-happen/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |issn=0190-8286))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-09-23-0109230108-story.html|title = Portraits Start to Emerge of Terrorism Suspects| date=23 September 2001))</ref>

==Radicalization==
After moving to [[Hamburg]] in 1998, al-Shehhi helped form the [[Hamburg cell]] with Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. There, his views became more and more radical. They met three or four times a week to discuss anti-American feelings and plot possible attacks. When someone asked why he and Atta never laughed, al-Shehhi retorted, "How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?"<ref>((Cite web |title=Page 179 |url=http://www.faqs.org/docs/911/911Report-179.html |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=www.faqs.org))</ref>

On 9 October 1999, Marwan al-Shehhi was filmed at [[Said Bahaji]]'s wedding in Germany with other 9/11 hijackers including [[Ziad Jarrah]].<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-07-hijackers_x.htm "Wedding video shows Sept. 11 hijackers, plotters"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913201359/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-07-hijackers_x.htm |date=2009-09-13 )), usatoday.com, 5 May 2003.</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/4e65d8432.html|title=Refworld &#124; Still at Large Ten Years After 9/11: Said Bahaji, Mohammed Atta's Right Hand Man|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|last=Refugees|website=Refworld))</ref>

In late 1999, al-Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Said Bahaji, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh decided to travel to [[Chechnya]] to fight against the [[Russia]]ns, but were convinced by [[Khalid al-Masri]] and [[Mohamedou Ould Slahi]] at the last minute to change their plans. They instead traveled to [[Afghanistan]] to meet with Osama bin Laden and trained for terrorist attacks. Immediately afterwards, Atta, al-Shehhi, and Jarrah reported their [[passport]]s stolen, possibly to erase travel visas to Afghanistan. After their training, the hijackers began to attempt to hide their radicalism. al-Shehhi shaved his beard and seemed to his old friends like he had become less religious. After the attacks, a librarian in Hamburg reported that al-Shehhi boasted to her "There will be thousands of dead. You will think of me ... You will see, in America something is going to happen. There will be many people killed."<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=500#a0400boasts |others=April–May 2000: Hijacker Tells Librarian About Major Attack in US. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001222905/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=500 |archive-date=October 1, 2006 |title=The Complete 9/11 Timeline: Cooperative Research |access-date=February 14, 2015 |work=Cooperative Research))</ref><ref>Butler, Desmond. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DF173FF93AA1575BC0A9649C8B63 "Germans Issue First Indictment in the 9/11 Plot"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205054158/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DF173FF93AA1575BC0A9649C8B63 |date=2008-12-05 )), nytimes.com, 29 August 2002.</ref><ref>Bernstein, Richard. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/national/10PLOT.html?ex=1091505600&en=7ca523da35ee3dad&ei=5070 "On Path to the U.S. Skies, Plot Leader Met bin Laden"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309000425/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/national/10PLOT.html?ex=1091505600&en=7ca523da35ee3dad&ei=5070 |date=2016-03-09 )), nytimes.com, 10 September 2002.</ref>

==In the United States==
===Flight education and preparation===
[[File:Al-Shehhi Drivers Licence.gif|left|thumb|Marwan al-Shehhi's Florida drivers license, which he received on April 4, 2001]]
Al-Shehhi was the first of the Hamburg group to leave for the United States. He arrived in [[Newark, New Jersey]] on 29 May 2000. Atta and Jarrah joined him the next month, and the three men began to search for flight schools. Al-Shehhi and Jarrah posed as body guards of Atta, who were also posing as a "[[Saudi Arabia]]n royal family member" while the three of them took flying lessons in [[Venice, Florida]]. They logged hundreds of hours on a [[Boeing 727]] flight simulator. They received their licenses by December 2000. Their expenses were paid for by [[Ali Abdul Aziz Ali]]. On either 26 or 27 December, Atta, Jarrah, and al-Shehhi abandoned a [[Piper Cherokee]] that had stalled on the runway of [[Miami International Airport]]. On 31 December, the trio went to the Opa-Locka Airport and practiced on a [[Boeing 727]] simulator. Al-Shehhi began to take "surveillance flights" in the summer of 2001, watching the operations of flight crews and making final preparations.<ref>((Cite web|title=Statement of Robert S. Mueller: Joint Investigation Into September 11: (published September 26, 2002)|url=https://irp.fas.org/congress/2002_hr/092602mueller.html|access-date=2021-09-09|website=irp.fas.org))</ref><ref>((Cite web|date=2001-09-14|title=How 'shy foreigners' learned to pilot flying-bomb Boeings|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/14/september11.usa18|access-date=2021-09-09|website=the Guardian|language=en))</ref>

===August 2001===
On 23 August, the [[Israel]]i [[Mossad]] reportedly gave al-Shehhi's name to the [[CIA]] as part of a list of 19 US residents they said were planning an attack in the near future. Only four of the names are known for certain, the other three being fellow 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Mohamed Atta, and Khalid al-Mihdhar. It is not known if the list had all 19 hijackers' names or if it only had as many names as there were hijackers by coincidence.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a082301mossad |others=August 23, 2001: Mossad Reportedly Gives CIA List of Terrorist Living in US; at Least Four 9/11 Hijackers Named |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031428/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a082301mossad |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Context of 'August 23, 2001: Mossad Reportedly Gives CIA List of Terrorist Living in US; at Least Four 9/11 Hijackers Named' |work=History Commons))</ref>

[[Image:Marwan Al-Shehhi full card.jpg|thumb|Shehhi's motel registration]]
On 26 August, al-Shehhi signed into the Panther [[Motel]] in [[Deerfield Beach, Florida]], paying US$500, saying he wanted to stay until 2 September, and listing a [[Mailboxes Etc.]] as his permanent address. His register entry indicated that he was driving a blue [[Chevrolet Malibu]], assumed to be the one rented by Atta two weeks prior, and manager Richard Surma said that he bent rules to allow al-Shehhi to have another man as an overnight guest. On 28 August, al-Shehhi went to the [[Miami International Airport]], accompanied by an unknown man, where he purchased his ticket for [[United Airlines Flight 175|Flight 175]].<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/092602mueller.html "Statement for the Record, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103193507/http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/092602mueller.html |date=2012-01-03 )), FAS.org, September 26, 2002.</ref>

==September 11 attacks and death==
((main|United Airlines Flight 175))

At 5:01 AM on the morning of 11 September Al-Shehhi in [[Boston]] received a phone call from [[United Airlines Flight 93|Flight 93]] hijacker pilot [[Ziad Jarrah]] in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]. The call would be the last time Jarrah and Al-Shehhi spoke and is believed by authorities to be the two confirming to one another that the attacks were ready to begin.<ref>((cite book |last=McMillan |first=Tom |date=2014 |title=Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXiFBAAAQBAJ&dq=Ziad+Jarrah+Marwan+Al+Shehhi+5:01+am+cell+phone+call&pg=PA64 |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]] |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1442232853 |access-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-date=September 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911040828/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Flight_93/MXiFBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Ziad+Jarrah+Marwan+Al+Shehhi+5%3A01+am+cell+phone+call&pg=PA64&printsec=frontcover%3Dfalse |url-status=live ))((rp|64))</ref>

After arriving at [[Logan International Airport]] later that morning, al-Shehhi made a call to [[Mohamed Atta]] lasting from 6:52 to 6:55, who was elsewhere in the same airport as both American 11 and United 175 were to fly from Logan to [[Los Angeles International Airport]]. The call is believed to have served the same purpose as Al-Shehhi's earlier call to Jarrah.<ref name="auto">((cite book|last=9/11 Final Report of the National Commission|title="We have some planes"|year=2004|url=https://9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf))</ref>((rp|19))

Between 7:23 and 7:28, the five hijackers each boarded the plane, with Al-Shehhi taking his seat in 6C.<ref name="auto"/>((rp|21)) The plane became airborne at 8:14, only to be hijacked 28 minutes after takeoff. The terrorists gained access to the cockpit through unknown means<ref name="auto"/>((rp|23)) and murdered both pilots, allowing Al-Shehhi to assume control of the flight.<ref name="auto"/>((rp|25)) Shortly after the hijacking, the plane came close to [[mid-air collision|colliding]] with another aircraft in the vicinity, Delta Airlines Flight 2315.<ref name=":0">((cite web|url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20020912/NEWS/309129968|title=Report: hijacked plane nearly hit flight from Bradley|date=September 12, 2002|access-date=April 18, 2019|work=SouthCoastToday.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418010256/https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20020912/NEWS/309129968|archive-date=April 18, 2019))</ref> Approaching New York City, Al-Shehhi saw smoke and fire pouring southeast from the World Trade Center's North Tower after it was struck by Flight 11 at 8:46&nbsp;a.m.,<ref>((cite book |last=McMillan |first=Tom |date=2014 |title=Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXiFBAAAQBAJ&q=The+sight+must+have+thrilled+him.+Atta+had+struck%3B+we+can+only+guess+that+it+was+a+final+motivation+for+him+to+do+the+same&pg=PA73 |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]] |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |page=73 |isbn=978-1442232853 |access-date=January 18, 2023|archive-date=September 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911145616/https://books.google.com/books?id=MXiFBAAAQBAJ&q=The+sight+must+have+thrilled+him.+Atta+had+struck%3B+we+can+only+guess+that+it+was+a+final+motivation+for+him+to+do+the+same&pg=PA73 |url-status=live ))</ref> and narrowly avoided a second mid-air collision with Midwest Express Flight 7.<ref>((cite book |title=Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 |first=Lynn |last=Spencer |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2008 |isbn=978-1416559252 |pages=74–76 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/touchinghistoryu00spen/page/74 ))</ref>
[[File:WTC 2 plane crash (Myers clip6).webm|thumb|At 9:03 AM, Marwan al-Shehhi crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, causing a massive explosion and catastrophic damage to the skyscraper.]]
Flying at speeds of around ((cvt|590|mph|kn m/s km/h))((efn|Sources disagree on the exact speed of impact. NTSB study in 2002 concluded around ((cvt|515|mph|kn m/s km/h)),((sfn|NTSB|2002b)) whereas MIT study concluded ((cvt|503|mph|kn m/s km/h)).<ref>((cite web |last1=Kausel |first1=Eduardo |title=Speed of Aircraft |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |url=http://web.mit.edu/civenv/wtc/PDFfiles/Chapter%20III%20Aircraft%20speed.pdf |access-date=15 August 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511123620/http://web.mit.edu/civenv/wtc/PDFfiles/Chapter%20III%20Aircraft%20speed.pdf |url-status=live))</ref>)) while carrying approximately 9,100 gallons<ref name="auto1">((cite book|last=National Institute of Standards and Technology|title=Final Reports from the NIST World Trade Center Disaster Investigation|year=2005|url=https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/NCSTAR/ncstar1-5av1.pdf))</ref>((rp|88)) (approximately 34,447 liters) of jet fuel, Al-Shehhi crashed the plane into the South Tower at 9:03:02&nbsp;a.m.((efn|name=Time|The exact time is disputed. The 9/11 Commission report says 9:03:11,<ref>((cite report |title=Final Report of the 9/11 Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States |date=July 22, 2004 |publisher=National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States |access-date=March 16, 2023 |url=https://9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf |ref=((harvid|9/11 Commission|2004a)) |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816164111/https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf |url-status=live |pages=7–8))</ref><ref>((cite report |title=Staff Report of the 9/11 Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States |date=September 2005 |orig-date=August 26, 2004 |publisher=National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States |access-date=March 16, 2023 |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/9-11/staff-report-sept2005.pdf |ref=((harvid|9/11 Commission|2004b))|archive-date=July 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712075041/http://www.archives.gov/research/9-11/staff-report-sept2005.pdf |url-status=live |page=24))</ref> NIST reports 9:02:59,<ref>((cite report |title=Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis |author=Building and Fire Research Laboratory |work=National Institute of Standards and Technology |publisher=United States Department of Commerce |date=September 2005 |url=https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/NCSTAR/ncstar1-5av1.pdf |ref=((harvid|NISTb|2005)) |access-date=March 16, 2023|archive-date=September 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911011051/https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/NCSTAR/ncstar1-5av1.pdf |url-status=live |page=27))</ref> some other sources report 9:03:02.<ref>((cite news |title=Timeline for United Airlines Flight 175 |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1962517 |newspaper=NPR |date = June 17, 2004|language=en |access-date=March 16, 2023 |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824221736/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1962517 |url-status=live ))</ref>))<ref>Rinaldi, Thomas (2016), https://books.google.com/books?id=y_wlCwAAQBAJ&dq=south+tower+9:03:02+am&pg=PT80 Retrieved September 6, 2016</ref> between floors 77 and 85, instantly killing himself and everyone else aboard the flight in addition to many more inside the South Tower. More than 600 people were on the wrong side of the impact zone when the plane struck, half of whom were killed instantaneously. Thus, the estimated 300 people still alive following the impact were left stranded in the upper floors of the catastrophically damaged skyscraper, now set ablaze and rapidly filling with smoke.<ref>((cite news|date=May 26, 2002|title=102 MINUTES: Last Words at the Trade Center; Fighting to Live as the Towers Die|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/102-minutes-last-words-at-the-trade-center-fighting-to-live-as-the-towers-die.html|access-date=March 16, 2023))</ref> Because all eyes were on the Twin Towers following the crash of Flight 11 seventeen minutes earlier, the impact of Flight 175 and the explosion that followed was seen by millions of people worldwide on live television, being filmed and photographed from numerous vantage points.<ref>((cite news|author=Boxer|first=Sarah|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DEED71F3EF932A2575AC0A9649C8B63|title=One Camera, Then Thousands, Indelibly Etching a Day of Loss|date=September 11, 2002|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 17, 2008|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911145703/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/us/eyewitnesses-one-camera-then-thousands-indelibly-etching-a-day-of-loss.html|url-status=live))</ref> Although the angle at which Al-Shehhi crashed did not sever all means of escape from the impact zone, most of the people who survived the crash were unable to use the single intact stairwell before the tower fell less than an hour later.<ref>((cite news|date=September 10, 2003|title=TWO YEARS LATER: THE 91ST FLOOR; The Line Between Life and Death, Still Indelible|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/us/two-years-later-the-91st-floor-the-line-between-life-and-death-still-indelible.html |access-date=December 5, 2022))</ref>

Al-Shehhi flew the plane faster and lower into the tower than Atta did, into the eastern half of the South Tower's southern facade close to the southeast corner, causing the tower's structural integrity to be compromised far more severely than the North Tower's.<ref>((cite news|date=February 23, 2002|title=A NATION CHALLENGED: THE TRADE CENTER CRASHES; First Tower to Fall Was Hit At Higher Speed, Study Finds|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/us/nation-challenged-trade-center-crashes-first-tower-fall-was-hit-higher-speed.html|access-date=January 18, 2023))</ref> At 9:59 A.M. that morning,<ref name="auto1"/>((rp|80))<ref>((cite book|last=9/11 Final Report of the National Commission|title=Collapse of WTC2|year=2004|url=https://9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf))</ref>((rp|322)) the South Tower became the first tower to collapse, having stood for 56 minutes((efn|NIST and the 9/11 Commission both give the time as 9:58:59 a.m., which is subsequently rounded to 9:59 for simplicity. If the Commission's claim that the South Tower was struck at 9:03:11 is to be believed, then it collapsed after 55 minutes and 48 seconds, not 56 minutes.)) after the plane crash.

==See also==
* ((annotated link|Hijackers in the September 11 attacks))
* ((annotated link|PENTTBOM))

==Notes==
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==References==
((Reflist))

==Sources==
* Thompson, Paul. ''[[The Terror Timeline]]''. ReganBooks, 2004. ((ISBN|0-06-078338-9))
* ''The 9/11 Commission Report''. W.W. Norton & Company. ((ISBN|0-393-32671-3))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100807204647/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html The Final 9/11 Commission Report]
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