Osama bin Laden’s sister Sana and his stepmother Rajaa Hashim were on a family holiday to the UK when their private jet crashed into a car auction site while trying to land at a Hampshire airport, killing them both.
The plane had made regular trips to Britain in the past two years, leading to speculation that members of the former al-Qaeda leader’s family were frequent visitors to Britain.
Bin Laden’s stepmother, Rajaa Hashim, and his sister Sana, who worked in an orphanage in Saudi Arabia, were killed along with Sana’s husband Zuhair Hashim and the Jordanian pilot, when the plane crashed while trying to land at Blackbushe airport, near Yateley, on Friday.
Hampshire police said the family were “visiting the UK on vacation”.
Industry sources revealed the Embraer Phenom 300 jet, which was owned by the bin Laden family run Salem Aviation company, had twice flown to southern England in the days before the fatal crash, as well as making trips here in March and at regular intervals since 2013, often landing at Blackbushe and nearby Farnborough airports.
On the day of the crash it left Blackbushe for Milan’s Malpensa airport at around 10am, before returning later that afternoon, crashing into the car auction centre shortly after 3pm.
That suggests the plane picked up Rajaa Hashim, Sana and her husband, an architect and a scientific researcher and writer, after a visit to the northern Italian city. Less likely is that it had flown the party to Milan for just a few hours before returning to Britain.
The source said: “That plane, which is registered in Saudi Arabia, was a frequent visitor to the UK and has been since the end of 2013. It flew to the UK on July 28 and 29 and then flew out and back from Milan-Malpensa two days later, on the 31st
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