Osama Bin Laden’s Family Killed In Private Jet Crash

A private jet which crashed, killing three members of Osama bin Laden’s family, landed too far down the runway of a Hampshire airport because it was travelling 40 per cent faster than the recommended speed, accident investigators have concluded.

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The Saudi-registered Phenom 300 jet smashed into an earth bank at the end of the runway at Blackbushe Airport on July 31 last year before becoming airborne and colliding with several parked cars.

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The occupants survived the impacts but died from the effects of a fire which began after the wing separated from the fuselage, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said.

Its report found that the pilot’s ability to adapt and take on new information as he was landing was impeded due to a “very high workload situation”.

All three passengers were members of bin Laden’s family.

They were his stepmother, Raja Bashir Hashem, 75, her daughter, Sana bin Laden, 53, and another relative, Zouheir Anuar Hashem, 56.

The Jordanian pilot was 58-year-old Mazen Salim Alqasim.

 

No technical defects were discovered with the aircraft, the pilot was not found to have any substances in his body which would have reduced his performance and the weather was good, the AAIB noted.

Bin Laden, who claimed responsibility for the September 11 2001 attacks in the United States, is believed to have had more than 50 brothers and sisters and many stepmothers.

His billionaire father, Mohammed, died in a plane crash in Saudi Arabia in 1967.

The bin Laden family disowned Osama in 1994 when Saudi Arabia stripped him of his citizenship because of his militant activities.

The Al Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011.