4 individuals have been confirmed to have died after a Beechcraft Tremendous King Air crashed on take-off from the airport shortly earlier than 16:00hrs native time.
The victims are the 2 Dutch pilots of the plane together with two passengers who have been on the flight together with flight nurse Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31 who was on her first day within the function.
The Tremendous King Air, registration PH-ZAZ had arrived in Southend from Pula, Croatia earlier at this time and was working a flight to Lelystad within the Netherlands as SUZ1 when it crashed.
Essex Police confirmed they have been referred to as to experiences of the crash and attended together with The East of England Ambulance service, Airport Fireplace and Rescue and Essex County Fireplace and Rescue.
A spokesperson from the airport mentioned: “We will affirm there was a critical incident at London Southend Airport this afternoon involving a common aviation plane.”
The Tremendous King Air is a twin turboprop plane that may seat as much as 11 passengers and is standard for company and govt journey. The plane in query, PH-ZAZ, is a 31 12 months previous plane owned and operated by Zeusch Aviation which relies at Lelystad and specialises in Medevac (Medical Evacuation) and constitution flights.
In accordance with information from flight monitoring web site Flightradar24 the plane achieved a most altitude of simply 175ft above floor degree earlier than veering off to the left of the runway centreline and impacting the bottom simply contained in the airport boundary.
Esssex Police issued a press release saying: “We stay on the scene of a critical incident at Southend Airport.
“We have been alerted shortly earlier than 4pm to experiences of a collision involving one 12-metre aircraft.
“We’re working with all emergency providers on the scene now and that work will likely be ongoing for a number of hours.
“We’d please ask the general public to keep away from this space the place potential whereas this work continues.
“As a precaution attributable to their proximity to the incident, we’re evacuating the Rochford Hundred Golf Membership and Westcliff Rugby Membership.”
The Air Accidents Investigation Department (AAIB) have despatched a group to the positioning to start their investigation.
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