Five people have been killed after their small plane crashed into a house in southeastern England.
The jet crashed into an unoccupied house in Farnborough in Kent at around 2.30pm.
There were two pilots and three passengers on board the plane.
The group was on a business trip to France when the Cessna Citation aircraft crashed into the house.
Investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch are on the site of the crash and will be investigating all aspects of the accident.
The dead bodies will not be removed from the site until tomorrow a police spokesman said, adding that he could not give details of the five who died until their next of kin had been contacted.
Ambulance services said two people had been taken to the nearby Princess Royal University Hospital suffering from shock. They had not been involved in the crash.
One building on the quiet housing estate, believed to have been a garage, was burned down while the roof and upper storey of a house next door had been badly damaged.
Nearby Biggin Hill airfield said the Cessna Citation, a short-haul twin-engined jet, had just taken off when the pilot made an emergency call reporting difficulties and asking for permission to land again.
It ‘unfortunately crashed before reaching the airport,’ the airfield said.
The aircraft is believed to have been going to France.
Katherine Simnet, a resident of a nearby house, told the BBC, ‘We looked out of the bedroom window and we saw it flying really low, as though it was in trouble.’
‘It swerved our house. It looked like it was trying to land in the nearby woods, the nearby fields... but it crashed ... and we saw two big balls of black smoke and could smell the air fuel.’
She said she thought the residents of the house were on holiday.
