The al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan in 2011. Bin Laden was wanted for plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
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He did not confirm the identity of the victims.
The private jet crashed near the airfield and into cars at a auto auction site next door.
“It sounded like a missile coming in – very loud, followed by several explosions”, he said.
The Phenom 300 jet crashed at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, about 40 miles southwest of London, at around 3:09 p.m. (10:09 a.m. ET) while attempting to land, the airport said in a statement.
Geoff Pierce, an avid airplane photographer, said that the plane had approached the airport at an unbelievable speed.
“Sadly there were no survivors”.
No one on the ground was injured; a few spectators were close enough to take video. A joint investigation with the Air Accidents and Investigation (AAIB) Brand is under way.
A private jet crashed in on Friday, killing four people on board, a spokesman for service said, and Saudi and British media said the passengers were relatives of deceased al Qaeda leader.
Andrew Thomas, who was at a auto auction sales center based at the airport, told the BBC that “the plane nosedived into the cars and exploded on impact”. “Emergency services are now controlling the scene”, the statement added.
Multiple fire crews, seven ambulances and a helicopter were in attendance and police were directing passers-by away from the epicentre of the accident.
A group of people, believed to be the family of the victims, were escorted to the site by police officers. It said the plane was registered in and had originated in Milan, . Yet this isn’t the first time the family has lost members in a fatal plane crash. We could hear all the fuel tanks in the cars start to explode and there was a bad smell.
The bodies of all four occupants of the aircraft were found on the scene after the plane came down.
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It plunged into 15 parked cars at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire on Friday afternoon, according to Arabic media reports. Mohammed’s eldest son, Salem, died when an ultralight aircraft he was piloting hit power lines in the US in 1988.
