Al-Suqami died along with all other still-living occupants of the flight when hijacker-pilot Mohamed Atta deliberatelly crashed it into the North Tower of the
World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. Al-Suqami's passport was found by a passerby in the vicinity of
Vesey Street,<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satam_al-Suqami#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a> who delivered it to a
NYPD officer, before the towers collapsed.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satam_al-Suqami#cite_note-ginsburg-18"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a> This was one of four of the hijackers' original paper passports that totally or partially survived the attacks (the other being the passports of
Ziad Jarrah and
Saeed al-Ghamdi, recovered from the crash site of
United Airlines Flight 93, and that of Abdul Aziz al Omari, found intact in the luggage that did not make it in time into American Airlines Flight 11 during his and Atta's rushed check-in in Logan Airport from their connecting flight from
Portland, Maine).<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satam_al-Suqami#cite_note-19"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a> Digital copies of other hijackers' passports were later found in post-9/11 investigations.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satam_al-Suqami#cite_note-ginsburg-18"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a> According to a January 2004 testimony before the
9/11 Commission by lead counsel Susan Ginsburg, al-Suqami paper passport had "clearly" been "manipulated in a fraudulent manner in ways that have been associated with
al-Qaeda.",<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satam_al-Suqami#cite_note-ginsburg-18"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a> a tactic used during the
planning of the September 11 attacks to hide parts of the terrorists' travel histories, namely to
Taliban-occupied Afghanistan.
