The smaller plane crashed and set fire on Sunday afternoon at London’s port of Southend Airport. Witnesses described the explosion as a “fire ball”, and the airport until further notice. For now, there are no official information about the victims.
The accident occurred just before 16 hours local time, and according to the first data, it is a 12-meter length of 12 meters that ignited shortly after attempting to take off.
The Essex police announced that he was informed of the 12-meter plane in the flame at the site in Southend-on-Sea on Sunday. The Dutch company ZeSch Aviation confirmed that their flight SUZ1 was “involved in the accident” at London Southend airport.
On Sunday, the plane flown from the Greek capital of Athens for Pula in Croatia before he was referred to Southend, with a planned return to Lelystad Airport that evening.
John Johnson from Billericaya, Essex, watched her husband and children when he saw a “huge fireball” after the plane crashed “head forward in the ground.”
Johnson was at the airport with his wife and children to observe the activities of the planes, and he said that his sons “are really in love with planes.”
– You could see the pilots smiling, and we all returned their smile, then turned 180 degrees toward the point of takeoff, turned on the motorcycles, continuing down the runway, “he said BBC and added:
He flew probably in three or four seconds. He started strongly to lean into the left. I told my wife, that’s unusual. We don’t see planes that normally rotate at that stage of the rise. Within a few seconds of that, the plane almost rolled over and hit the ground. She was a huge fireball.
He called the emergency service to report an incident.
James Philpott, a bartender in the Rochford Hundred Golf Club, was in the hut in the middle of the field when he felt a “large heat wave”.
– I looked up and there was a huge fireball. People ran towards there to see if someone was hurt – he said for the BBC.
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