London Southend Airport will remain closed until further notice after a plane crashed in what witnesses described as a "fireball". Essex Police said it was alerted to a plane on fire at the site in Southend-on-Sea shortly before 16:00 BST on Sunday.

A small plane has crashed at London Southend Airport on England's south east coast, police said on Sunday. "We remain on the scene of a serious incident at Southend Airport," the local Essex Police said, adding that they were alerted just before 4 p.m. to reports of a collision involving a 39-foot plane.

LAS VEGAS ( FOX5) — Two people were killed in a plane crash Sunday near Needles Airport, south of Laughlin, officials said. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials, a Piper PA-28 light aircraft crashed near Needles Airport, nearly two hours southeast of Las Vegas. The crash occurred on Sunday, just after 9:30 p.m.