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Court Rules Bin Laden Family Plane Crash ‘Not Suspicious’

A UK court has ruled that the deaths of three members of Osama Bin Laden’s family were “accidental” after they crashed in Hampshire, England on 31 July 2015.  The bodies of Bin Laden’s brother-in-law, Zuhair Hashim, half-sister, Sana Mohammed Bin Laden, and her mother Raja Bashir Hashim, were all “incinerated” when the pilot, Mazen Al-Aqeel Da’jah, overshot the runway causing the plane to burst into flames. However, according to experts, the plane crash was deemed “highly suspicious” at the time, with reports suggesting that the plane had to dodge a mysterious plane tailing it nearby. BBC News reports: The family had been travelling from Milan, Italy, having attended a wedding in Lake Como. Sana’s brother Saad Bin Laden told the court his last communication was a picture of all three of them sent that morning via WhatsApp. A report previously published by the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said emergency warnings prior to landing may have “saturated the pilot’s mental capacity”. The report added the aircraft, a Saudi-registered Phenom 300, landed too far down the runway because it was travelling 40 per cent faster than the recommended speed. AAIB inspector Afandi Darlington told the inquest the Bin Laden family were found close to the [...]