Crash investigors inspect the site of an airplane crash at the British Car Auctions lot next to Blackbushe Airport, near Camberley, in southern Britain August 1, 2015. The private jet crashed in southern England on Friday, killing four people on board, a spokesman for Britain's Hampshire police service said, and Saudi and British media said the passengers were relatives of deceased al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. REUTERS
The Saudi-registered plane ploughed into a car auction site and burst into flames in southern England on Friday.
While the embassy did not comment on the identities of the dead, a source close to the family speaking to AFP and Saudi media indicated that they were bin Laden’s mother, his sister Sanaa, the sister’s husband Zuhair Hashem, and a Jordanian pilot.
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