Breaking News: Family members of the world’s terrorist, Osama Bin Laden were killed after a private plane crashed near Blackbushe Airport, Yateley, Southern England yesterday afternoon, August 1, 2015 around 3:00 pm London time.
According to BBC news report, Bin Laden’s mother, sister and her husband were on a private plane coming from Milan, Italy when the plane crashed into a British Car Auction site near the airport at around 15:00 BST. Eyewitnesses were able to take photo of the plane moments before it crashed and exploded.
All four passengers including a Jordanian pilot who were on a holiday in UK were killed; but nobody on the ground was injured according to Hampshire police.
Initially, Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf Al Saud, extended condolences to the Bin Laden family.
Osama Bin Laden was an international terrorist linked to the series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Bin Laden was later on believed to have been killed in an assault in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, by the US army .
A joint investigation with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and the local investigation team urged anyone with pictures and videos about the crash to get in touch on 101. The investigation team had been deployed to the crash site. Blackbushe Airport, in Yateley, which is currently closed as the jet had crashed near the end of the runway while attempting to make a landing.
Phil Giles, a former air accident investigator, said: “It suggests that the plane either landed too late or tried to take off again when the pilot realised it wasn’t going to make at the end of the runway. Also formal post-mortem examination is still going on.
Source: BBC News, Telegraph UK News