{"id":2729,"date":"2025-12-14T20:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:47:38","slug":"airport-remains-shut-down-following-fireball-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Airport remains shut down following fireball plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>London Southend Airport remains closed following a fatal plane crash on Sunday, confirmed by chief executive Jude Winstanley. The incident occurred just before 16:00 BST, when Essex Police were alerted to a 12-metre aircraft on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dutch aviation company Zeusch Aviation confirmed its SUZ1 flight was \u201cinvolved in an accident\u201d and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is cooperating with authorities. The plane had departed Athens, stopped in Pula, Croatia, and landed in Southend before it was scheduled to return to Lelystad, Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyewitness John Johnson from Billericay described the aircraft taking off and suddenly banking heavily to the left before crashing. \u201cWithin a few seconds, the aircraft almost inverted and hit the ground. There was a huge fireball,\u201d he told the BBC.<strong>&nbsp;Read more blow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pl.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pl.jpg 526w, https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pl-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pl-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Southend Airport remains closed following a fatal plane crash on Sunday, confirmed by chief executive Jude Winstanley. The incident occurred just before 16:00 BST, when Essex Police were alerted to a 12-metre aircraft on fire. Dutch aviation company Zeusch Aviation confirmed its SUZ1 flight was \u201cinvolved in an accident\u201d and is cooperating with authorities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}