Thanks for the thread, Southack!
I read this earlier today. If it's true that this guy was a roomate of Atta, then it seems likely to this reader that he could have also been logging air time to partcipate in the eventual attack on 9//11/01.
The FAA reprot blames the crash on the Air Traffic controllers error (they were switching shifts) I think it's an ironic coincidence that this occurred exactly one year before the attack but I don't think it was a deliberate attack on that day. I do, however, think that Al Quaeda lost a 5th pilot on that day.