MUSIC Mohamed Ata and Marwan Al-Shihi were at the controls of the two planes on September 11, 2001. The two that crashed into the World Trade Center. This is the man who ran the flight school that trained both of them for six months. Rudy Deckers, a Dutch citizen who has lived here since 1993. He's flying us in a four-seat Cessna 172, just like the one that Ata and Al-Shihi trained on at Deckers Flight School here in Florida. Deckers is taking us on the same flight training path along the Atlantic Ocean. It's the first time he's flown the route in eight years, so a flight instructor sits next to him. This is the bridge for the left and this is the airport here. These southwestern Florida skies were the training grounds for three of the four pilots. It's thought that they chose this area because of the flat ground and the back of the coastline can be used for navigation. We always went 10 miles out of the area and this is a very quiet area. So they did the stalls here, the steep turns, they're there, they're all practicing. Deckers saw these two every day. He still has their applications, their test scores, and student visa papers, even Ata's signature on his pilot license. Ata was always very by himself, didn't talk much, didn't like to talk to us, but Al-Shihi did. They were very much like many other foreign students except Deckers says they were disrespectful and in a tenif. After his chief instructor warned they might be expelled, Ata and Al-Shihi's attitudes improved. But what his company trained them to do, unraveled his life, his fortune, and his business. That's where was my airline office, a maintenance building over there, but nothing is mine anymore. At 4 a.m., the day after the terrorist attacks, FBI agents entered Deckers office. It was in this building at the time. They confiscated his files and computers. Immigration officials questioned him about these student visa applications. He testified before Congress. Florida charged him with fraud, then dropped the charges. His business and marriage collapsed. That brought so much stress, lost financially everything. I was worth $12 million in paper and after 9-11, I was worth $46,000. Deckers blames the terrorists, Al-Kaeda and Osama Ben Laden. He's written a book about his experience called Guilty by Association. If he had a flight school today, I would not have Muslim students. Deckers says his one successful life is now gone. When you lose your dream, when you lose all your money, I live in the beach enables at the Sellerhouse. I lost everything. But I'm still here. All I know! But some 3,000 others are not. Rudy Deckers says he's a survivor, and that's the story he wants to tell. In Venice, Florida, Carolyn Prasuti, VOA News.