Bin Laden plane crash: jet went down in near-perfect conditions

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/aviation-experts-bin-laden-plane-crash-cause
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Questions have been raised over the cause of Friday’s plane crash in which three members of the Bin Laden family were killed, given the aircraft had used the runway, which is fitted with hi-tech safety features, regularly in recent months.

The Saudi-registered Embraer Phenom 300 jet, which had departed from Milan’s Malpensa airport, was attempting to land at Blackbushe airport on the Hampshire/Surrey border when it crashed on to dozens of vehicles parked at a car auction site close to the runway.

The Saudi-registered plane was coming in from Milan when the accident happened shortly after 3pm. According to NBC, it was carrying three relatives of Osama bin Laden. They were named as Rajaa Hashim, Osama’s stepmother; Sana bin Laden, his half-sister; and her husband Zuhair Hashim. The pilot has yet to be identifed.

Without confirming the identities of the victims, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf al Saud, offered condolences on the embassy’s official Twitter account to the Bin Laden family, a prominent Saudi Arabia clan with vast business interests.

[backscatter712]

1. Aw, shucks, couldn't have happened to nicer folk... n/t

[pscot]

2. Yes. It's very sad.

[Alfalfa]

3. The entire Bin Laden family are guilty, I guess?

[Igel]

4. It makes thinking easier.

You see a label, and it can only mean one thing.

There's bin Ladin, he's bad, so all bin Ladins are necessarily evil, bad people. After all, some can never tell those people apart, they all look the same. /sarcasm


It also helps to group people and stereotype them. Then you have a label not for a family, but for a large, absolutely uniform collective consisting of millions.

[Alfalfa]

6. By all accounts Osama was always regarded as the black sheep of the family

In any case, this crash seems a bit suspicious.

[PSPS]

7. Geesh, I guess so. Kind of like Amber Roof, apparently. She got the same treatment.

[malaise]

9. Well said

[NuclearDem]

5. inb4CIAdidit

[mnhtnbb]

8. Sounds like pilot error coming in high and fast.