{"id":666491,"date":"2026-06-30T18:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:13:12","slug":"essex-police-attend-light-aircraft-crash-in-high-ongar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666491\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex Police attend light aircraft crash in High Ongar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigators are at the scene of a crash involving a light aircraft in Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came down in a field off Mill Lane, High Ongar, at about 12:30 BST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Supt Morgan Cronin, of Essex Police, said: &#8220;This is a serious incident and we understand it will cause concern in the local community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Air Accidents Investigation Branch described the crash as an &#8220;accident&#8221; and sent inspectors to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not yet clear if anyone has been injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People have been asked to avoid the area while emergency crews work at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cronin said officers were making the scene safe, adding: &#8220;There will be a visible police presence as we deal with this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators are at the scene of a crash involving a light aircraft in Essex. It came down in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}