6 h. ago Video shows mangled train cars on top of each other after huge derailment

Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a derailed freight train in Texas on Tuesday (12 August), which saw 35 carriages come off the track.

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7 d. ago Brits have 'sense of revulsion' over scenes of suffering in Gaza, Keir Starmer says

PM says aid needs to get to the Strip 'in volume and at scale' - as aerial footage showed the scale of the destruction after almost 22 months of war and Israeli bombardment

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7 d. ago Gaza from above: Chilling aerial footage shows devastation of enclave

After 22 months of intense bombardment from Israel and the war with militant group Hamas, Gaza now resembles the bottom of a fire pit.

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4 w. ago London Southend Airport reopens after four killed in plane crash

London Southend Airport reopens after four killed in plane crash  BBC

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4 w. ago London Southend Airport to partially reopen three days after fatal plane crash

A medical flight, chartered for a patient to be transported for treatment in the UK, crashed within the airport boundary after take-off on Sunday.

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4 w. ago Support available following London Southend Airport incident

Support available following London Southend Airport incident  Essex County Council

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4 w. ago Police work to recover fourth body after plane crash at Southend Airport

It is understood that the plane was bound for its base in the Netherlands when it crashed, killing four people who were all foreign nationals.

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4 w. ago Southend Airport plane crash latest: Tributes paid to ‘inspiring’ medics killed in explosion

Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31, a German citizen born in Chile, is named as one of the four victims

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4 w. ago Second victim of Southend Airport plane crash is named as 'fantastic' German paramedic father as probe into tragedy continues

Dr Matthias Eyl, 46, from Kleinmaischeid in west Germany, worked as a paramedic and was also employed as a doctor aboard international flights transporting patients, German media reports.

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4 w. ago Southend plane crash: Second victim named as 'warm and honest' doctor

Dr Mathias Eyl, 46, is understood to have been one of the four onboard a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air that crashed at Southend Airport on Sunday

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4 w. ago Southend plane crash: Everything we know as victims named and airport closed

Southend Airport remains closed after a small aircraft crashed close to the runway and burst into flames, killing four people.

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4 w. ago Haunting final moments of doomed Southend Airport plane before it exploded in fireball and killed four on board including nurse, 31, on her first day in new job

The haunting final moments of the doomed Southend Airport plane show it speeding up the runway before tragically exploding into a fireball just minutes later.

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4 w. ago Who was on the Southend airport plane crash? What we know as first victim named and four deaths confirmed

Friends of the Chilean nurse Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz said she was the ‘kindest soul’ and that she ‘didn't have a single bad bone in her body’

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4 w. ago Southend Airport plane crash latest: First victim named as nurse on first day of job after four killed in explosion

Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31, a German citizen born in Chile, is named as one of the four victims

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4 w. ago Southend Airport plane crash latest: No survivors in explosion that killed flight nurse on first day of new job

Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31, a German citizen born in Chile has been named as one of the victims of the crash.

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4 w. ago Southend Airport plane crash latest: ‘Beloved’ flight nurse killed in crash was on first day of new job

Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31, a German citizen born in Chile has been named as one of the victims of the crash.

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4 w. ago Who was on the Southend airport plane crash? What we know about the victims as four deaths confirmed

Friends of the Chilean nurse Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz said she was the ‘kindest soul’ and that she ‘didn't have a single bad bone in her body’

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4 w. ago New Southend Airport footage shows final moments before 'fireball' plane crash

Video footage has emerged showing the final moments of a plane which crashed in a 'fireball' killing two pilots, a nurse and a medic, as the airport remains closed

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4 w. ago Southend Airport: Everything we know after plane crashes killing four in fireball

Witnesses said in the moments before the crash they saw the pilots of the private medical aircraft waving to children as they prepared to leave the Essex airport

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4 w. ago Nurse, 31, who was killed in the Southend Airport plane crash alongside three other foreign nationals 'was on her first day in the job'

Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, a German citizen but born in in Chile, had worked as a nurse before but was on her first shift as a flight nurse.

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