Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, offered his condolences on the embassy’s official Twitter account to the Bin Laden family without identifying the victims of the crash.
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Rajaa Hashim, Osama’s stepmother, Sana bin Laden, his half-sister and her husband, Zuhair Hashim, were among the dead, according to the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television network.
The plane crashed Friday at a auto auction site on the property of Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, to the west of London, Hampshire fire and rescue services said.
Crash investigators inspect the site of the airplane crash at the British auto Auctions lot next to Blackbushe Airport, near Camberley in southern Britain August 1, 2015. Photo by Luke MacGregor, Reuters.
Police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch have launched a joint investigation.
Before his death, the last known sighting of bin Laden by anyone other than his very close entourage was in late 2001 – as he prepared to flee his stronghold in Afghanistan.
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”.
The Guardian reports that the Saudi embassy is working with United Kingdom authorities to investigate the incident and return the remains of bin Laden’s relatives back to the Arab nation.
The bin Laden family, which runs a huge construction conglomerate in Saudi Arabia, are not known to have any significant business interest in the UK, but London is a popular destination for many wealthy Saudis for shopping trips and socialising with friends.
ElSeñor SarcamosS via YouTube Plumes of smoke from a jet crash that is said to have killed two members of Osama bin Laden’s family in southern England. One of his sons, Salem, was killed when his ultralight aircraft flew into power lines in San Antonio, Texas, in 1988.
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Osama Bin Laden, the accused mastermind behind the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in 2011 by a US Special Forces raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
