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.
Eyewitness John Johnson from Billericay described the aircraft taking off and suddenly banking heavily to the left before crashing. “Within a few seconds, the aircraft almost inverted and hit the ground. There was a huge fireball,” he told the BBC. Read more blow
