Members of the emergency services attend the scene of a plane crash at a car park next to Blackbushe Airport, in Hampshire on August 1, 2015. Members of Osama Bin Laden's family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences. Four people died when the Saudi Arabia-registered plane ploughed into a car auction site and burst into flames in southern England on Friday. AFP PHOTO / JACK TAYLOR (Photo credit should read JACK TAYLOR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Bin Laden's Family Reportedly Onboard Plane That Crashed in England
August 01, 2015
The family is a large and wealthy one.
LONDON (AP) — Family members of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were killed in a private jet crash in southern England, a Saudi ambassador said, but did not further identify the dead.
Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf Bin Abdel-Aziz, the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom, offered his condolences to the wealthy bin Laden family, which owns a major construction company in Saudi Arabia.
"The embassy will follow up on the incident and its circumstances with the concerned British authorities and work on speeding up the handover of the bodies of the victims to the kingdom for prayer and burial," the ambassador said in a statement tweeted by the embassy late Friday.
Members of the emergency services attend the scene of a plane crash at a car park next to Blackbushe Airport, in Hampshire on August 1, 2015. Members of Osama Bin Laden's family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences. Four people died when the Saudi Arabia-registered plane ploughed into a car auction site and burst into flames in southern England on Friday. AFP PHOTO / JACK TAYLOR (Photo credit should read JACK TAYLOR/AFP/Getty Images)
Police say four people — a pilot and three passengers — died when an executive jet crashed into a parking lot and burst into flames while trying to land at an airport in southern England Friday afternoon. The plane had been flying from Malpensa Airport in Milan.
No one on the ground was hurt. Police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch have launched a joint investigation.
Blackbushe Airport said the Embraer Phenom 300 jet crashed near the end of the runway while trying to land at the airfield about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of London, which is used by private planes and flying clubs.
Andrew Thomas, who was at a car auction sales center based at the airport, told the BBC that "the plane nosedived into the cars and exploded on impact." He said he saw the plane and several cars in flames.
The official Saudi Press Agency earlier identified the plane as Saudi-owned without mentioning the bin Ladens. It said a Saudi official would work with British authorities in investigating the crash.
The bin Laden family disowned Osama in 1994 when Saudi Arabia stripped him of his citizenship because of his militant activities. The al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan in 2011.
The family is a large and wealthy one. Osama bin Laden's billionaire father Mohammed, who died in 1967, had more than 50 children and founded the Binladen Group, a sprawling construction conglomerate awarded many major building contracts in the Sunni kingdom.
Saudi AIB regrets to inform of an accident of a Saudi registered-private aircraft today in the UK at 1408UTC.
#Blackbushe
— هيئة الطيران المدني (@ksagaca) July 31, 2015
Initial reports state 4 persons were on board.
#Blackbushe
— هيئة الطيران المدني (@ksagaca) July 31, 2015
Saudi AIB will assign a Rep. to support @aaibgovuk in its investigation of the aircraft accident at #Blackbusche airport UK
— هيئة الطيران المدني (@ksagaca) July 31, 2015
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