Saudi Helicopter Carrying 8 High-Ranking Officials & Prince Bin-Muqrin Crashed Near Yemen Border - All Dead

Tyler Durden's picture

The shocking latest twist in what has been a chaotic weekend in Saudi Arabia is news that a helicopter transporting 8 high-ranking Saudi officials (including prince Mansour bin-Muqrin) has crashed in the south of the Kingdom, near the border with Yemen.

Sky News Arabia confirms an earlier report from Al-Watan news..."Newsletter: loss of a helicopter carrying a number of officials in the southern Asir, Saudi Arabia"

Details are few for now but some headlines report that the high-ranking officials aboard included Crown Prince Mansour bin-Muqrin, deputy Emir of Asir province.

The following video shows the crown prince and the group of officials just a few short hours before the crash...

The crash site is reported near Abha, in the south of The Kingdom, near the border with Yemen.

There are sources saying all aboard have died...

Just what is going on in Saudi Arabia?

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Clearcutt's picture

Good shot, houthis bros.

Cheka_Mate's picture
  • Big Trouble in Little Riyadh 
Dame Ednas Possum's picture

I’m meant to be flying back there on Thursday...

Not sure I want to go, not that I ever really want to go.

peddling-fiction's picture

Maybe it is time to call in sick.

loebster's picture

Destabilizing the Middle East to create Greater Israhell. http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-2g9

bobcatz's picture

O Lord, have mercy! Then (((they))) will run roughshod on the world.

Pinto Currency's picture

Sauds allegedly involved in Vegas shooting using tactical contractors ETS Risk Management

Oct. 31: Saudi Arabia Connection To Vegas, More Attacks Could Be Coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUvhMognLgA

Trump may be taking the House of Saud to the woodshed.

Related:

https://www.intellihub.com/vegas-flight-records-reveal-air-assault-extraction-possible/

Truther's picture

M. Bin Salam Purging the klan. Consolidating power and partnering with BiBi.

Fireworks.... Real fireworks shortly. Stay tuned.

Skateboarder's picture

I think commercial air travel will be just fine. This is a "Mercedes Benz" special.

That being said, I'm sorry you have to go there.

peddling-fiction's picture

Careful with the Tesla, extra crispy.

Billy the Poet's picture

The calm is over. The storm is here.

Dame Ednas Possum's picture

What we do for little rectangles of coloured paper huh?

Nobodys Home's picture

In the late 80's I bought a 77 Mercedes 280 SE from a Lebanese used car salesman. He said: "In my country we use these as car bombs."

Luc X. Ifer's picture

Someone in that gang knew too much about 9/11.

 

peddling-fiction's picture

Broken promises.

A sucker is born (and killed) everyday.

nmewn's picture

Well, that escalated quickly. 

Nobodys Home's picture

They should have taken the elevator. 2nd floor. Ladies Lingerie.

peddling-fiction's picture

Saudi Arabia is the route towards petrodollar demise.

It appears to be on schedule for the 2018 phoenix.

vealparm's picture

This was a lone-wolf attack by a guy named bin-alpaddock and his rifle was equipped with a bump stock so it became an automatic weapon.

NickyGall's picture

Here is an article that looks at recent CIA propaganda regarding Saudi Arabia that received little coverage in the United States:

                                          

http://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2017/02/the-irony-of-saudi-arabia-an...

 

Apparently, even the "new Washington" just can't wait to curry favour with the House of Saud.

roadhazard's picture

Trump loves to touch the Orb.

Seasmoke's picture

Now very interesting things are starting to pick up speed. It may be on.

Pendolino's picture

For sure. Definitely this time. No doubt about it. How many times has it 'been on' now, I lost count?

RussianSniper's picture

Only a matter of time before the helicopter and plane crashes of former high ranking US officials; i.e. Clintons, Obamas, Bushes, Holder, Lynch, Comey.

These crooks can't all be tried and exposed as traitors.

 

The deep state will use a special system of justice to purge these exposed and obviously guilty war criminals.

45North1's picture

Petro Dollar / Yuan related?

StarGate's picture

Guy Fawkes day.
Texas church attack with FBI involved.
Saudi coup and with counter coup arrest of Saudi funder$ of Hillary and Obama.
Previous arrest of partners Manafort and Tony Podesta.
Brazile reveals her boss Hillary stole US primary election from Bernie.

Storm in progress.

peddling-fiction's picture

Remember the 5th of November. <-- Guy Fawkes Day

Wait a sec, today is the 5th of November.

A rope a rope...

JoeTurner's picture

Somewhere in heaven Pinochet smiles.....

John Law Lives's picture

Did it crash with the help of a Stinger missile...?

FinMin's picture

He didn't fly so good.

Blankone's picture

So is this a continuation of the purge announced yesterday with the multiple arrests? Or is it in retaliation? If it is retaliation then both sides have the power of violence and things could get entertaining.

If Putin has the capabilities his fans think he has - this is the time for unrest and rebellion to be unleashed in the countryside/tribal regions of SA. But then Putin has made nice with the Saudi royal family and is even selling them the S400. Which brings up the potential of Massad/CIA sponsorship of trouble.

Cluster_Frak's picture

I love coups. They are so sexy. The higher the body count in Saudi Arabia, the less terrorism globally.

shovelhead's picture

These guys didn't rate an arrest?

Korprit_Phlunkie's picture

Send in the FBI, they'll get to the bottom of it.

briancolarusso's picture

Did anyone on board know the Clintons?? Just say'n

german Wunderkind's picture

Thats not the crown prince, its the son of a former crown prince.

roadhazard's picture

So much easier than an anti aircraft gun firing squad.

sheikurbootie's picture

Most aircraft accidents are pilot error 85%

Helicopters autorotate very easily and land perfectly without power.  Catastrophic crashes are highly unlikely.  KSA uses many American contractors to service and maintain their aircraft.  The average KSA soldier is shitty at everything.  NCO's are good, Officers are puppets.

Suicide pilot?

Hit job?

vswamy's picture

They are consolidating power by assassinations and arrests.

 

 

SpanishGoop's picture

Sand not soft enough to crash on ?

Sand in the petrol tank ?

Sand gets everywhere.

 

 

buzzsaw99's picture

if half the sauds kill the other half that would be tragic.

buzzsaw99's picture

There is a lot of dirty money to be had (to spend as you wish) in the KSA, several movie quotes come to mind:

Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're gonna have to earn it. [/Blondie, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ]

[Laughing, after Riddick, while in captivity, kills one of his five-man mercenary team] Four way split! [/Toombs, The Chronicles of Riddick ]

Txpl9421's picture

His father was the Crown Prince. This guy was not.

He was an advisor to the Crown prince when that position was held by his father. His father got tossed under the bus by the new regime. Now he is just a Prince.

Well, now he is just another red colored smear on the Saudi desert floor.