Osama Bin Laden's 'stepmother and sister among four killed

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Osama Bin Laden's 'stepmother and sister among four killed' after their private jet crashes into a car auction near Hampshire airport when it overshot the runway as it tried to land

• Plane overshot the runway at Blackbushe Airport on Hampshire border
• The £7m jet crashed into a carpark and exploded after hitting the ground
• The aircraft, a £7m Brazilian-built Embraer Phenom 300, was destroyed
• Police are investigating whether three members of family were on board

PUBLISHED: 16:15, 31 July 2015 | UPDATED: 03:35, 1 August 2015



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.

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The £7million private jet was owned by a company linked to the Bin Laden family based in the Jeddah HQ

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The Bin Laden owned Embraer Phenom 300, pictured, had just arrived from Milan when it overshot the runway

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Emergency services raced to the scene of the crash, but the pilot and his three passengers were all killed

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The rows of parked cars at British Car Auctions near Blackbushe Airport that were destroyed by a plane



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Emergency services raced to the scene shortly after 3pm when the aircraft crashed into an overflow car park attached to the British Car Auction.
The Saudi Arabian embassy in London expressed their condolences to the Bin Laden family for their loss following yesterday's accident.




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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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.
They are aware of the reports and are carrying out checks with members of the family for further information.’
A spokesman for Blackbushe Airport said: 'A Phenom 300 Jet with four persons on board crashed near the end of the runway around 3.09 PM while attempting to make a landing.
'The scene was attended by Blackbushe Fire & Rescue within minutes, followed by Hampshire Fire, Police and Ambulance units.
'Emergency services are currently controlling the scene.'
The South East Coast Ambulance Service sent out a tweet saying they have had reports of four casualties after the incident near Farnborough.
The aircraft is understood to have been owned by a Saudi Arabian national.
All staff and customers at the British Car Auction site escaped unharmed.


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[h=3]BIN LADEN FAMILY STILL BIG BUSINESS IN SAUDI ARABIA[/h]


The Saudi Red Sea trading port of Jeddah is the business HQ for the construction family’s fabulously successful Saudi BinLadin Group (SBG).
The Bin Ladens made their money by gaining exclusive rights to all religious building projects under Saudi control in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, Mohammed Bin Laden then branched out into lucrative civil projects.
More than a dozen Bin Laden brothers and half-brothers sit on the SBG board and help to run its operations from regional HQs across the Middle East.
SBG is estimated to be worth many billions of pounds.



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Osama Bin Laden's family is still very well connected in Saudi Arabia with a multi-billion pound building empire

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The aircraft involved in today's crash was named after Osama Bin Laden's eldest brother Salem, right, who himself died in an aircraft crash while flying in the United States in 1988

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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



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Acting chief inspector Olga Venner, of Hampshire Police, speaking from the scene, said: 'We can confirm that there were four people on board, including the pilot.
'Sadly, there were no survivors. No-one on the ground has been injured and we would urge anyone with any information, including pictures or videos, to contact 101.'
In a statement, an airport spokesman said: 'Blackbushe Airport confirmed that a Phenom 300 jet with four persons on board crashed near the end of the runway around 3.09pm while attempting to make a landing.

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Air accident investigators were soon at the scene of the crash in a bid to determine what went wrong

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Several stunned people stood silently as they looked over towards the scene of today's disaster

'The scene was attended by Blackbushe Fire and Rescue within minutes, followed by Hampshire fire, police and ambulance units. Emergency services are currently controlling the scene.'
Robert Belcher, a local aviation enthusiast, said he was driving home when he saw a plume of black smoke coming from the site.
He said: 'I was passing the airport on my way home and there was a big column of smoke in the air.
'The fire service had closed the road behind me.
'I could see the plume of smoke waving from about five miles away and was hoping it was just a car fire rather than an aircraft accident.'

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Osama Bin Laden, circled, lost his father Mohamed and his eldest brother Salem in two plane crashes

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The aircraft tried and failed to land on the main runway at Blackbushe and instead ploughed into the car park

Mr Belcher said he was 'shocked' when he discovered that a jet had crashed.
He added: 'Apparently the aircraft was landing and just didn't stop.
'At the end of the runway there is a car park because the airport is used for car auctions and it's gone into there.
'I assumed it was cars on fire in the auction yard.
'Local people have said that it was this aircraft which is registered in Saudi Arabia.
'It's been a regular visitor to the airport for a few months.'
Andrew Thomas, who was paying for a car at the time of impact, said the plane 'exploded'.
'I saw it when it had just happened, and could see the plane and cars in flames,' he told BBC Surrey.
'The plane nosedived into the cars and exploded on impact.


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The aircraft was seen circling Blackbushe Airport before overshooting the runway and crashing in a fireball

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Four people were killed in the tragedy when the Saudi-owned private jet crashed into a car auction

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According to eye-witnesses, the plane clipped a fence and flipped over before landing into a row of parked cars


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Local resident Daphne Knowles, 70, told GetSurrey: 'I was in a field with the cattle and I heard an aircraft coming very very fast from behind me. The engines were screaming far too much and the aircraft was trying to land - I'm a glider pilot and I thought it's far too low to the ground.
'Two people said they thought it had to swerve to miss another aircraft as it went in, but I didn't see that myself and can't confirm, then there was a huge black cloud of smoke which went up.'
Joe Ramos' was first alerted to the drama by his son and told how the plane suddenly crashed into parked cars at a neighbouring auction site.


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Mr Ramos, who was working nearby, said: 'There was a loud bang and then my son quickly came in to the auction hall where the cashiers are, saying a plane had gone down.
'We quickly went back out only to see a private jet had gone over the fence of the airport.
'It's actually clipped the fence, spun around and crashed into the cars where they are sold.
'There are approximately six to ten fire engines and ambulances on the site. Everyone was evacuated from the site.
'You can no longer see the plane in the fire as it's spread on to the vehicles surrounding it.
'The fire started at the front of the plane and worked its way from the front of the jet to the back and spread outwards onto the parked cars.
'The whole place was engulfed with very thick black smoke which the fire brigade is still trying to get on top of.'
The Civil Aviation Authority and Air Accidents Investigation Branch were among the professional bodies investigating the crash.
The nearby A30 was closed in both directions due to the incident.

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Pictures have also shown a plume of black smoke being sent into the air following the tragic accident

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The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed it was investigating the fatal accident



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[h=3]THE EMBRAER PHENOM 300 JET[/h]

• It is a light jet aircraft made by Brazilian manufacturer Embraer.
• Standard models of the plane can hold eight occupants, including those in the cockpit. It can be adapted to carry up to 11 people.
• Its wingspan is 15.91m (52ft 2 inches), and length is 15.64m (51ft 4 inches).
• The plane can reach 453 knots on high-speed cruise mode.
• It can reach a maximum altitude of 45,000ft (13,716m).
• The aircraft has a range of 3,650 km, approximately five hours of flight time.
• Its landing distance is 799m (2,621ft)

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Allah willed it

 

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Allah willed it

 

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The total number of bin Laden family members believed to have died in plane crashes is now five.






Mohammed bin Laden


Originally from Yemen, Mohammed Bin Laden moved to Saudi Arabia in the 1910s. He became the head of a construction empire, bin Laden Group, that is behind some of the biggest building projects in Saudi Arabia.
He is believed to have had around 50 children and died in a plane crash in south west Saudi Arabia in 1967.
Mohammed married Hamida Alia Ghanoum some time in the 1950s, and in 1957 she gave birth to Osama, believed to be her only child
His Beechcraft plane was trying to land on a mountain airstrip in Saudi Arabia's southern Asir province when it crashed. Mohammed had been overseeing a road construction project at the time.
Twitter user IraqiSuryani1 has posted a photograph (left) of Mohammed bin Laden.




Salem bin Laden

Mohammed's eldest son, and the cousin of Osama bin Laden, Salem was educated at Millfield, a prestigious private school in Somerset. After his father's death he became the patriarch of the family and took the reins of its vast property portfolio.
According to Steve Coll, author of The Bin Ladens, he supported the family financially during the Mecca uprising of 1979.





Curiously, Salem also died in a plane crash. In 1988 he accidentally drifted into electrical power lines near San Antonio in Texas. His aircraft plunged more than 150 feet to the ground and he died from head injuries.

[SUP]Salem bin Laden (right) was killed in an aircraft crash in 1988 (Corbis)




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Sana bin Laden

Osama bin Laden's sister. She appears to have led a modest life and was working at an orphanage in Saudi Arabia before her death on Friday afternoon. She is among the three members of the bin Laden family believed to have died in the crash near Blackbushe airport in Hampshire.
A photograph of a woman said to be Sana Bin Laden sat in a plane is circulating on Twitter.
A friend said she was "loved dearly" by the children at the orphanage, who called her "Mama Soso"





Zuhair Hashim

Sana bin Laden's wife, and Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. Little else is known about him. Also said to have been killed in Friday's plane crash.

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A young Osama Bin Laden (inset) on a visit to Sweden with cousin Salem.[/SUP]
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Osama bin Laden's stepmother and the third of three family members said to have died in the crash near Blackbushe airport.

 

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I heard at the moment the plane impacted the cars the auctioneer yelled out, "SOLD!"

 

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This looks like a promo clip for new Reality show on one of those channels 92 people know about.

 

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karma?