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Moroccan Rescue Workers Search for Abu Dhabi Prince after Glider Crash

   Scott Stearns | Dakar 28 March 2010
   Moroccan  gendarmes  guard  the  private  road  heading to the Imarati
   palace,  owned by the head of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, Ahmed
   bin  Zayed  Al  Nahyan, in Oum Aza, south of the capital Rabat, 28 Mar
   2010

Photo: AP

   Moroccan  gendarmes  guard  the  private  road  heading to the Imarati
   palace,  owned by the head of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, Ahmed
   bin  Zayed  Al  Nahyan, in Oum Aza, south of the capital Rabat, 28 Mar
   2010.  Rescue  workers  were  scouring  an  artificial  Moroccan  lake
   Saturday  in  search of the head of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund,
   the  world's largest, who went missing after his glider went down in a
   lake  Friday.  Al  Nahyan  is  the  managing director of the Abu Dhabi
   Investment  Authority. He is also the younger brother of Sheik Khalifa
   bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the leader of the United Arab Emirates.

   Rescue workers in Morocco are searching for one of the world's richest
   men, who is feared dead after his glider crashed south of Rabat.
   Sheikh  Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan's glider crashed about 35 kilometers
   south  of the Moroccan capital, near the coastal town of Skhirat.  It
   went  down  late  Friday  in  an  artificial  lake created by the Sidi
   Mohammed Ben Abdallah Dam, near one of Morocco's royal palaces.
   Morocco's  state-run  news  agency  says  the  pilot of the glider was
   rescued  and  is  in  good  condition,  but a search for the Abu Dhabi
   prince continues.  The crash site has been closed to reporters.
   Sheikh  Ahmed, 41, is the chairman of the Zayed Foundation for Charity
   and  Humanitarian  Works  and  managing  director  of  the  Abu  Dhabi
   Investment  Authority,  which  is  thought  to  be the world's largest
   sovereign  wealth  fund  with  investments in residential property and
   Britain's Gatwick airport.
   He is the younger brother of Abu Dhabi and United Arab Emirate's ruler
   Sheikh  Khalifa  bin  Zayed  Al  Nahyan and last year was number 27 on
   Forbes  magazine's  list  of the world's most powerful people.  He is
   current  an undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance and Industry and
   was previously Interior Minister of the UAE.

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