Abdul Rahman al-Omari

Abdul Rahman al-Omari

Nationality	Saudi
Known for	Wrongly accused of being a 9/11 hijacker
Children	4

Abdul Rahman al-Omari (Arabic: عبدالرحمن العمري‎, ʿAbd ar-Raḥman al-ʿUmarī) was a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines. He was mistakenly named by the FBI as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11 attacks.

Biography

He had once worked at JFK Airport.^[1]

Wrongly accused

He had moved out of his Vero Beach, Florida residence with his wife and four children on September 3, 2001, but it was quickly shown that he was still alive, and the FBI issued an apology.

Real identity of hijackers

It was quickly determined that Mohamed Atta was the hijacker-pilot among the group of hijackers of American 11. The FBI then named Abdulaziz al-Omari as a hijacker, who may have used the alias "Abdulrahman al-Omari" when boarding American 11, the probable reason the FBI named the wrong Omari.

References

↑ cbsnews

Hijackers in the September 11 attacks

American Airlines Flight 11	Mohamed Atta Satam al-Suqami Waleed al-Shehri Wail al-Shehri Abdulaziz al-Omari

United Airlines Flight 175	Marwan al-Shehhi Fayez Banihammad Mohand al-Shehri Hamza al-Ghamdi Ahmed al-Ghamdi

American Airlines Flight 77	Hani Hanjour Khalid al-Mihdhar Majed Moqed Nawaf al-Hazmi Salem al-Hazmi

United Airlines Flight 93	Ziad Jarrah Ahmed al-Nami Saeed al-Ghamdi Ahmed al-Haznawi

20th hijacker suspects	Ramzi bin al-Shibh Mohammed al-Qahtani Zacarias Moussaoui Mushabib al-Hamlan Zakariya Essabar Ammar al-Baluchi Walid bin Attash Khalid al-Zahrani Fawaz al-Nashimi

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