Original: Wail Mohammed al-Shehri ( , W l ash-Shehr ; also transliterated as Alshehri ; July 31 , 1973 -- September 11 , 2001 ) was an al-Qaeda associate and one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 , which was hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks .
Simplified: Wail al-Shehri ( , also transliterated Alshehri ) was named by the FBI as one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles that crashed into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 , 2001 attacks .