Talk:Mohammed bin Laden

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[edit] Crash info

Your article concerning Binladen is incorrect. Mohammed Bin Laden did not die in San Antonio, Tx, he died in a air plane crash in Saudi on his way to a construction project.

The above anon. User:70.32.84.133 attempted to substitute "an ultralight" for the plane crashed by Salem bin Laden in San Antonio, Texas 1988, at Bin Laden family. He was in fact flying a BAC 1-11, a short-range jet airliner which had been bought in July 1977 by Prince Mohammed Ben Fahd (PBS "Frontline"). That plane's flight log had been a subject of some interest because the same plane was said to have been used in the summer of 1980 by negotiators in the so-called "October Surprise" (the alleged conspiracy by Ronald Reagan's supporters to delay resolution of the Iran Hostage Crisis until after the US presidential election). An ultralight would be impractical for a London-Madrid hop; a BAC 1-11 ideal. A very interesting attempted switch. --Wetman 04:47, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

As the above states, the information in the article is inconsistent.

The NTSB summary report states that the event occurred Wednesday, May 29, 1968 in SAN ANTONIO, TX in a BEECH 95-C55 due to ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION

while the article states that: Mohammed bin Laden was killed On September 3,1967 when his Beechcraft crashed in southwest Saudi Arabia.

Salem bin Laden was killed on May 29, 1988 when his ultra-light aircraft crashed in San Antonio Texas.

With an error such as that in an accident report it is no wonder there are conspiracy theories about this. How could the NTSB possibly confuse the details of the accidents? - they should not of had any knowledge of the accident that occurred 31 years earlier in a foreign country.

There appears to be no NTSB report for either accident. Assuming that the 1968 report is mislabeled is original research. --Dhartung | Talk 03:45, 20 August 2006 (UTC)