At least two of the cell phone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas. The calls also indicated that Ahmed Al-Nami had tied a box around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside. The flight transcript suggests that three hijackers were in the cockpit. Ziad Jarrah was identified as the pilot and is heard calling another hijacker "Saeed", indicating that al-Ghamdi, who also trained in flight simulators, was helping Jarrah with the controls. Passengers on the plane heard through phone calls the fates of the other hijacked planes. A passenger uprising resulted in the plane crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone aboard. Mistaken identity allegations On September 23, 2001, before the FBI had released the pictures of the hijackers, the BBC and The Daily Telegraph reported that a Saudi Airlines pilot named Saeed al-Ghamdi was furious that a name on the hijacker's list released by the FBI matched his own. CNN also showed a picture of the "living" al-Ghamdi as the hijacker. The man claimed CNN likely got his picture from a Flight Safety flying school in Florida he attended. Der Spiegel later investigated the claims of "living" hijackers by the BBC and discovered them to be cases of mistaken identity. In June 2005 the Saudi government released a list (see al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) of 36 wanted (and alive) terrorists, one of whom was Salih Sa'id Al Batih al-Ghamdi. 9/11 conspiracy theorists quickly confused him with the hijacker Saeed al-Ghamdi. He has been portrayed by Iraqi actor Lewis Alsamari in United 93 and Shawn Ahmed in Flight 93. See also PENTTBOM Hijackers in the September 11 attacks Notes References External links The Final 9/11 Commission Report BBC News 2001 deaths Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members Participants in the September 11 attacks United Airlines Flight 93 1979 births Saudi Arabian mass murderers People from Al-Bahah Province Deaths in Somerset County, Pennsylvania