Osama Bin
Laden's stepmother and sister are thought to be among four people killed
after a private jet owned by the family crashed into a fireball after
overshooting a runway while trying to land outside London.
The £7million Embraer Phenom 300 was owned by Salem Aviation in Jeddah, which is controlled by the dead terrorist’s family.
The
Brazilian-built aircraft exploded after ploughing into a carpark
killing the pilot and three passengers. Saudi Arabian media reported
that Bin Laden's stepmother and sister were among the four people
killed, as well as their Jordanian pilot.
The
jet was completely destroyed after it overshot the runway while trying
to land at the Blackbushe Airport on the Hampshire-Surrey border.
Although based in Saudi Arabia, the plane was flying into Hampshire from Milan. The Bin Ladens have interests in northern Italy.
The crash is not being treated as terrorism-related.
According
to AvGen Limited, who monitor flights arriving and departing Heathrow
Airport, their equipment picked up the doomed jet as it approached
Blackbushe Airport.
Their
data suggests that the aircraft was flying at 1,250 feet when it
approached the airfield. It then climbed rapidly 500 feet. When the
pilot steered the jet to the runway, he started losing height at a rate
of 3,000 feet per minute in the moments before the crash.
Bin Laden's father Mohammed originally registered the tail number of the aircraft involved in today's crash in the 1960s.
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| Osama Bin Laden's father Mohammed, left, was killed in a crash in 1967 in a plane with the same tail number |
He was flying the aircraft with the number HZ-IBN, when he crashed in 1967, however his family retained the registration.
The
aircraft was registered to Salem Aviation - which was named after the
dead terrorist's eldest brother, who himself died in a crash in 1988
when he ploughed into powerlines in San Antonio, Texas.
A source close to Saudi Arabian authorities said: ‘Saudi officials in contact with members of the (bin Laden) family.
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