UAE mourns Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan who dies in Moroccan glider crash

The UAE is in mourning following the tragic death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan the 41-year-old head of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, ADIA, and the younger brother of Abu Dhabi's ruler.
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Sheikh Ahmed had been a passenger in a glider flying in Rabat, Morocco last week when it crashed into a reservoir near the Al Nahyan royal palace south of the Moroccan capital.

Rescuers, who found his body on Tuesday, had combed the area for four days after the aircraft crashed.

The pilot survived.

Sheikh Ahmed is the second of the late Sheikh Zayed’s sons to die in an aviation related tragedy. In June 2008, a brother of Sheik Ahmed’s, Sheik Nasser bin Zayed al-Nahyan, was killed when the helicopter carrying him and his colleagues crashed into the Arabian Gulf.

The investment fund which Sheikh Ahmed headed has recently become a major shareholder in London’s Gatwick Airport.

 

 

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