Four foreign nationals die in Southend Airport plane crash
Nurse and two pilots among dead after Southend airport tragedy
- A medical transport plane crashed shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport on Sunday afternoon.
- All four foreign nationals on board died in the crash, including two Dutch pilots and a Chilean nurse.
- The plane, which had earlier dropped off a patient, was bound for the Netherlands when it crashed within the airport boundary.
- Witnesses described seeing the plane bank heavily, invert, and crash head first, resulting in a "fireball".
- London Southend Airport remains closed, and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch is investigating the cause of the crash.