The Dutch pilots killed in the London Southend Airport plane crash were named today as the airline praised them for their 'professionalism, dedication, and character'.
Captain Danny Marko Franken, 53, and First Officer Floris Christiaan Rhee, 24, were two of the four people on board who all died in the disaster in Essex on July 13.
The medical flight on a small plane chartered for a patient to be transported for treatment in the UK crashed within the airport boundary shortly after take-off.
The two male pilots were on board with a female nurse and a male doctor, with the Zeusch Aviation plane bound for its Netherlands base after dropping off a patient.
Mr Franken, from Harderwijk, was married with two children and also worked as a first officer for KLM on Boeing 777, according to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
