Plane carrying Bin Laden family crashes after landing at too high a speed
British officials have concluded that the plane carrying terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's family crashed last year, killing four people, because the pilot landed too fast while "mentally fatigued".
The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) announced today (December 8) that the Phenom 300 jetliner departing from Milan, Italy, landed 40% over the permitted speed when it was only 438 meters above the runway on July 31, 2015, according to BBC.
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The scene of the plane crash carrying three members of the Bin Laden family. Photo: Mirror |
The 57-year-old Jordanian pilot made the wrong landing because he was “overworked”. The plane hit the ground at 250km/h, crashing into a car park near Blackbushe Airport, London.
Three members of the Bin Laden family, stepmother Raja Bashir Hashem, 75, half-sister Sana, 53, another 56-year-old relative and a pilot, were killed in a fire that broke out after the plane crashed.
According to VNE