46 h. ago UK holiday park house blown apart in massive 'gas explosion' as horror images emerge

Emergency services rushed to the scene after a suspected gas explosion at the Ladram Bay Holiday Park in Otterton, east Devon, caused a property to be completely levelled

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69 h. ago Street taped off and emergency crews at scene following 'explosion'

Residents heard a 'bang' before emergency crews cordoned off the area

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3 w. ago Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters

Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victimThe north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched by the gods. Bisected by the Tropic of Cancer latitude line, it is deep in the Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles from Honolulu. The island’s steep rocky cliffs give way to indigo blue waters dotted with monk seals and stony coral. No humans have lived on Mokumanamana, but it has the world’s highest density of ancient Hawaiian religious sites.“It sits as a boundary between what Native Hawaiians refer to as ‘pō’, the darkness, and ‘au’, the light,” said William Aila, the former chair of Hawaii’s department of land and natural resources. “When a Hawaiian passes, their soul makes its way from wherever it is in the main Hawaiian Islands, up to the North-western Hawaiian Islands. And at that juncture, at pō, they’re met by their ancestors.” As Aila tells it, if a person has been good, they ca...

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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 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: 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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4 w. ago Investigators speak out as more details emerge over 'fireball' Southend Airport plane crash

The small medical transport plane crashed on Sunday, killing four people on board

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4 w. ago Southend Airport plane crash latest: ‘Beloved’ flight nurse killed in explosion 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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