Two-seat Cessna aircraft was being used for short flight experience when it crashed in Ongar on Tuesday, police say 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.