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| Date: | Sunday 13 July 2025 |
| Time: | 15:57 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft B200 Super King Air |
| Owner/operator: | Zeusch Aviation BV |
| Registration: | PH-ZAZ |
| MSN: | BB-1478 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Engine model: | P&W Canada PT6A-42 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) |
| Lelystad Airport (LEY/EHLE) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, PH-ZAZ, flight SUZ1, crashed immediately after takeoff from runway 05 at London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC).
The aircraft was airborne for a few seconds when it banked to the left, hit the ground and burst into flames.
Both pilots, a doctor and a nurse perished and the aircraft was destroyed.
ADS-B data suggest that the aircraft arrived at SEN at 13:49 UTC after a repatriation flight from Pula (PUY), Croatia. It remained on the ground at SEN for about an hour and began taxiing to runway 05 at 14:52 UTC. It backtracked on the runway and began the takeoff roll at 14:57 UTC. After lifting off the runway, a eyewitness reported that the aircraft rolled left, almost to an inverted position, before it hit the ground.
METAR:
EGMC 131420Z 14007KT 9999 SCT045 23/15 Q1012
EGMC 131520Z 13007KT 100V160 9999 FEW044 25/14 Q1011
Sources:
https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/13/explosion-plane-crashes-moments-takeoff-southend-airport-23652023/
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/25310307.huge-fireball-seen-near-southend-airport-public-asked-keep-away/
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/25310319.fireball-seen-plane-crashes-southend-airport-live/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/southend-airport-plane-crash-victims-latest-updates-b2788176.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jw71kjx14o
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ph-zaz#3b3c5ad3
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=485ec1&lat=51.575&lon=0.698&zoom=15.6&showTrace=2025-07-13&leg=2&trackLabels
History of this aircraft
Ex G-MEDZ, EC-JGB, D-IHAN, N8150N
Location
Images:
Magdeburg Airport (EDBM), 21.March 2021
PH-ZAZ,Birmingham,(BHX/EGBB,) UK 22/06/25
Media:
https://x.com/SouthendAirport/status/1944445565619560585Small Plane Crashes in Huge Fireball at Southend Airport – Emergency Services at Scene https://t.co/XIA5A97euy pic.twitter.com/vKkZJDiWct
— UK News in Pictures(@UKNIP247) (@uknip247) July 13, 2025
BREAKING: Business jet crashes at London Southend Airport, no word on casualties https://t.co/bWgUMnFAhr
— BNO News (@BNONews) July 13, 2025
BREAKING: A plane has crashed at London Southend Airport, sparking a massive fireball. pic.twitter.com/Sv2BQgLFQb
— Weather Monitor (@WeatherMonitors) July 13, 2025
?Air Accidents Investigation Branch launch investigation into Southend Airport Crash, alongside Essex police investigation:
— Greatest Hits Radio Essex News (@GHREssex) July 14, 2025
?Lisa Fitzsimons, Principle Investigator AAIB pic.twitter.com/qpzwudomdM
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