MANCHESTER: London Southend Airport in Essex said that it has closed operations until further notice after the police said a small plane crashed at the airport on England’s south-east coast on Sunday (Jul 13).<\/p>\n
All flights to and from the airport have been cancelled while police, emergency services and air accident investigators are attending the incident, London Southend Airport said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
“We remain on the scene of a serious incident at Southend Airport,” the local Essex police said, adding that they were alerted just before 4pm to reports of a collision involving a 12m plane.<\/p>\n
According to the BBC, a Beechcraft B200 plane crashed shortly after takeoff.<\/p>\n
It was unclear how many people were on the plane.<\/p>\n
Images from British newspaper websites, not verified by Reuters, showed a fireball rising into the air above Southend Airport, around 56km east of London.<\/p>\n
The East of England Ambulance Service said it had sent four ambulances and other response vehicles.<\/p>\n
The airport’s website showed five international flights had been cancelled following the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER: London Southend Airport in Essex said that it has closed operations until further notice after the police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[100552,1306,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-262986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-air-crash","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114848980272554231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}