Four dead as Saudi jet crashes near London

A Saudi Arabian registered business jet crashed on landing at Blackbushe Airport near Farnborough, UK yesterday killing all four people on board.
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The aircraft – carrying three members of the leading industrialist, Bin Ladin family – had left Milan on a n Embraer Phenom 300 jet for the UK.
Blackbushe – on the Hampshire-Surrey borders is 50km from London.
The aircraft is believed to have overrun the airport’s single runway and careered into a car auction lot, hitting parked cars and bursting into flames.
GACA – the Saudi Arabian civil aviation authority – has said it will be cooperating with the UK’s Accident Investigation Bureau.
In a statement on Twitter, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences to the Bin Laden family.
The embassy said it was in contact with the British crash investigators.
The statement 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 added that it was working with the British authorities to ensure the speedy handover of the bodies for funerals and burials in Saudi Arabia.
The aircraft carried the registration HZ-IBN and was registered to Salem Aviation – one of the Bin Laden Group companies.
That registration has a tragic history. Company founder Mohammed Bin Ladin
registered the tail number and was flying the aircraft when he crashed in 1967. The Bin Ladin family retained the registration. Salem Aviation was named after Mohammed’s son Salem, who died in a crash in 1988 when his aircraft hit powerlines in San Antonio, Texas.

The crash is being investigated by the UK's Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB).