{"id":264630,"date":"2025-07-14T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264630\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:10:09","slug":"four-foreign-nationals-died-in-plane-crash-at-london-southend-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264630\/","title":{"rendered":"Four foreign nationals died in plane crash at London Southend Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plane was operated by Zeusch Aviation, based at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands, which has confirmed it is &#8220;actively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1jw71kjx14o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting the authorities with the investigation&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aircraft had flown from the Greek capital Athens to Pula in Croatia on Sunday before heading to Southend. It was due to return to Lelystad on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC reporter Sofia Bettia has been at the headquarters of Zeusch Aviation \u2013 a privately owned company operating 14 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a small airport in the Netherlands, on an island to the east of Amsterdam &#8211; and today, it is almost deserted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just saw airport security staff lowering the Dutch flag to half mast at the entrance of the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Zeusch specialises in medical evacuation flights, private charters, and aerial filming for various events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were able to speak to a pilot from another airline. He told us he&#8217;s worried that one of his colleagues may be among the victims, as many of the staff here know one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plane was operated by Zeusch Aviation, based at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands, which has confirmed it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-264630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852464099888485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264630","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=264630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}