An ill-fated plane conveying a flight nurse, dutch pilot and two others has reportedly crashed in Southend Airport, London shortly after take-off on Sunday afternoon.
The Beechcraft B200 Super King Air operated by Dutch firm Zeusch Aviation had flown from Athens, Greece to Pula in Croatia on Sunday before heading to Southend.
Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, aged 31, a German citizen born in Chile, was reportedly on her first day as a flight nurse on board the small aircraft when it came down after take-off on Sunday afternoon.
Essex Police chief confirmed that the four victims were foreign nationals.
“Sadly, we can now confirm that all four people on board died,” Essex Police chief superintendent Morgan Cronin
Zeusch Aviation operates medical evacuation and transplant flights as well as aerial mapping and private charters, as stated on its website.
London Southend is a relatively small airport, around 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of the British capital, used for short-haul flights by airlines including easyJet. The airport remained closed on Monday with no word on when it would reopen.
Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it has sent a “multi-disciplinary team including inspectors with expertise in aircraft operations, human factors, engineering and recorded data” to the airport.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has started an investigation with inspectors with expertise in aircraft operations, human factors, engineering and recorded data already dispatched to the crash site.
German Nurse María Fernanda Rojas Ortiz
Upperhill News 
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