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Three members of Bin Laden family killed in private jet crash

Family members of former al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden were on board a private plane which crashed into a car auction site in Hampshire yesterday, police have confirmed.

Four people died when the plane, which is registered in Saudi Arabia, crashed when it was coming into land.

The Saudi Embassy in the UK has tweeted its condolences to the Bin Laden family.

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Pictures show final moments of doomed private jet

The Phenom 300 comes in to try to land at Blackbushe Airport. Credit: Geoff Pierce

ITV News has obtained pictures of a private jet moments before it crashed into a car auction site, killing all four people on board.

Plane spotter Geoff Pierce was photographing the Phenom 300 when it came in to land at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire.

He said the aircraft touched down around three-quarters of the way along the runway and was going too fast to stop.

Mr Pierce told ITV News: "There's a small embankment at the end of the runway and it careered over that and then carried on and ploughed into the parked cars and vehicles.

"Immediately there was towering black smoke coming up. It was almost surreal how it happened.

"It was going too fast to stop comfortably. We can only assume that the pilot had no choice other than to land it rather than take off and do another circuit."

Onlookers watch as a huge cloud of black smoke goes up in the air after the crash. Credit: Geoff Pierce

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