{"id":4350,"date":"2025-08-11T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/london-southend-airport-closed-all-flights-cancelled-after-small-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:23:09","slug":"london-southend-airport-closed-all-flights-cancelled-after-small-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/london-southend-airport-closed-all-flights-cancelled-after-small-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"London Southend Airport closed, all flights cancelled after small plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>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&#8217;s south-east coast on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8220;We remain on the scene of a serious incident at Southend Airport,&#8221; the local Essex police said, adding that they were alerted just before 4 p.m. to reports of a collision involving a 12-metre (39.4-foot) plane.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was unclear how many people were on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Images from British newspaper websites, not verified by Reuters, showed a fireball rising into the air above Southend Airport, around 35 miles (56 km) east of London.<\/p>\n<p>The East of England Ambulance Service said it had sent four ambulances and other response vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The airport&#8217;s website showed five international flights had been cancelled following the accident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/travel\/london-southend-airport-closed-all-flights-cancelled-after-small-plane-crash-ws-l-19636686.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s south-east coast on Sunday. All flights to and from the airport have been cancelled while police, emergency services and air accident investigators are attending the incident, London Southend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}