Video: Four feared dead as private jet crashes into car auction - Telegraph

The Phenom 300 jet believed to be the aircraft that crashed at Blackbushe Airport (Robert Belcher/PA)

The Embraer Phenom 300 jet then flipped over and landed on a number of cars in an adjacent auction site, sparking a huge blaze.

Around 20 cars were completely destroyed.

The plane was owned by Salem Aviation, a company which is part of the Bin Laden conglomerate based in Jeddah.

If the deaths of members of the bin Laden clan are confirmed, it would be the third time the family had fallen victim to a plane crash.

On September 3 1967, Mohammed bin Laden, Osama’s father, was killed when his Beechcraft 18 crashed on a landing strip near Usran in Saudi Arabia

The tail-fin number HZ-IBN was the same as that on the Embraer which crashed in Hampshire.

It was reported that the registration was retained by the bin Laden family after Mohammed’s death.

In 1988 Salem bin Laden, the Millfield educated half brother of Osama, died when his aircraft drifted into high-voltage power lines in San Antonio, Texas.

In a statement following the crash, an airport spokesman said: "A Phenom 300 Jet with four persons on board crashed near the end of the runway around 3.09pm while attempting to make a landing.

An aerial view of the Blackbushe Airport crash site (Sky News)

"The scene was attended by Blackbushe Fire and Rescue within minutes, followed by Hampshire fire, police and ambulance units."

Acting Chief Inspector Olga Venner of Hampshire police said the pilot and three passengers had been on board.

She said: "sadly there were no survivors. No one on the ground has been injured."

Daphne Knowles, 70, who lives close to the airfield said the aircraft sounded to be in trouble as it came in to land.

She said: "I was in a field with the cattle and I heard an aircraft coming very, very fast from behind me. The engines were screaming far too much."

Describing the scene, another witness said: "There was a loud bang and then my son quickly came in to the auction hall where the cashiers are, saying a plane had gone down. We quickly went back out only to see a private jet had gone over the fence of the airport.

"It's actually clipped the fence, spun around and crashed into the cars where they are sold.

"The fire started at the front of the plane and worked its way from the front of the jet to the back and spread outwards onto the parked cars.

"The whole place was engulfed with very thick black smoke.

A spokesman for the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed it was "aware" of the incident and was "making inquiries".