Two dead after small plane crashes in field in Essex

Police at the scene of the plane crash in a field off Mill Lane, Ongar, on Tuesday. Photograph: Essex Live/BPM Media

Two people have died after a light aircraft on a “short flight experience” crashed in a field near Ongar in Essex, police have said.

The two-seat Cessna plane crashed in a field off Mill Lane, Ongar, on Tuesday after taking off from North Weald airfield about seven miles west, Essex police said. The two people onboard have not been formally identified.