Bin Laden's Family Members Die In Plane Crash

What killed the Bin Laden family suddenly? Was it a "miscalculated landing"? Or was it a pilot error or brake failure?

A private jet carrying the three members of the Bin Laden family suddenly crashlanded at a Hampshire airport, killing all the passengers, noted aviation experts, according to theindependent.

It was a Saudi-registered Phenom 300 jet that was trying to land at Blackbushe airport in Hampshire, Friday afternoon. But suddenly, it just ran over the runway, crashed into a fence and a car auction site near the airport, and suddenly went up in flames.

Hence, Osama bin Laden's stepmother, Rajaa Hashim, her daughter Sana bin Laden and son-in-law Zuhair Hashim were suddenly killed. Mazen Al Doaja, the Jordanian pilot, was also killed.

The Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences to the Bin Laden family, according to bbc. He said: "His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud... has paid his condolences to the family and relatives of Mohammed bin Laden at Blackbushe airport in Britain for the great loss they have suffered as a result of the crash of the plane that was carrying the family."

The embassy noted that it was working with the British authorities in order to ensure that the bodies were handed over for burials in Saudi Arabia.

There is now a joint probe into the accident, say the Hampshire Police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch. Phil Giles, who was an earlier air accident investigator, said that on Sunday, a brake failure would be "unusual" and it was probably the pilot's miscalculation that led to the accident.

"He may have misjudged it and landed too far down the runway, and then couldn't stop it. Or he may have touched down, realised he wasn't going to stop and put the power on to go around again. But it doesn't look as if it was going very fast when it ended up in the car park - it's not ploughed a furrow through millions of cars."

Some onlookers reported that the plane's engines were "screaming" and the aircraft had already hit the car auction centre's fence, began to spin and suddenly crashed.

Pilot error is probably the answer to the accident, said aviation expert Julian Bray. He called the Phenom 300 a "reliable jet", and said that the "perfect flying conditions" ruled out any other reason for the accident.

As far back as 1994, Bin Laden family had severed ties with him, as Saudi Arabia removed his citizenship due to his militant activities. Sana bin Laden is reputed to be a "philanthropist" as she supported orphanages and helped children.