LONDON/JEDDAH — Members of the Binladin family were among the victims of a plane crash in Britain Friday afternoon, the Saudi Embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences. British Police said the pilot and three passengers died when the Embraer Phenom 300 crashed into a parking lot and burst into flames while trying to land at Blackbushe Airport in southern England. The plane had been flying from Malpensa Airport in Milan. No one on the ground was hurt.
The airfield, about 65 kilometers southwest of London, is used by private planes and flying clubs.
Saudi media indicated that the dead included Raja Hashim, a wife of the late Muhmmad Binladin, his daughter Sanaa and her husband Zuhair Hashem and a Jordanian pilot.
Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf, Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom, offered his condolences to the Binladin family, which owns a major construction company in the Kingdom.
"The embassy will follow up on the incident and its circumstances with the concerned British authorities and work on speeding up the handover of the bodies of the victims to the Kingdom for prayer and burial," the ambassador said in a statement tweeted on the embassy's official Twitter account late Friday.
The Saudi Press Agency earlier identified the plane as Saudi-owned. It said a Saudi official would work with British authorities in investigating the crash. — Agencies
