India, July 13 -- A small plane crashed at London Southend Airport on Sunday, British news portals reported, with the police saying it was at the scene of a "serious incident". London Southend Airport is situated on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea in England's Essex

Visuals said to be of the incident surfaced on social media, showing a huge fireball and then thick plume of black smoke rising high up in the sky.

The aircraft, a Beech B200 Super King Air, was reportedly scheduled to fly from Southend to Lelystad in the Netherlands and went down just moments after becoming airborne around 4 pm.

There was no immediate information on the number of passengers on the plane.

A police statement said quoted in the Sky News report read. "We wer...