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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Giuliano de Leon

First-Day Nurse Among Southend Airport Plane Crash Victims; Police Still Looking for One More Body

Maria Fernanda Rojas Ortiz (Credit: Maria Fernanda Rojas Ortiz/Facebook)

A nurse who was on her first day on the job was among the casualties of the medevac flight that crashed Sunday at London Southend Airport.

Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31, a German citizen originally from Chile, was on her first shift as a flight nurse when the aircraft went down shortly after take-off. The medevac flight, operated by Dutch air ambulance firm Zeusch Aviation, had completed a patient transfer from Pula, Croatia, and was en route to the Netherlands.

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