Tragic!!! Five die in light aircraft inferno in Malta airport

A least five people have died after a light aircraft crashed at Malta airport.

A witness told the Times of Malta the plane suddenly tipped onto its right side shortly after take-off "and went straight down into the ground".

Some of the burning wreckage landed on the airport perimeter road. Firefighters were on the scene spraying the area with foam. 

The twin-prop Metroliner was initially reported to have been leased by Frontex, but a spokesman for the EU border management agency said it was not their plane.

"The plane that crashed in Malta was not deployed by Frontex," the agency tweeted. 

The aircraft was heading for Misrata in Libya when it crashed, according to officials.

Flights to and from Malta International Airport have been halted after the country's worst peacetime aircraft accident.

An eyewitness at the airport, Edward De Gaetano told Sky News that passengers at the airport had been taken to a safe area.

He said: "We were about to take off, moments before we did from our windows we could see a massive explosion - at first we had no idea what caused it," he said.

"We quickly realised an aircraft carrier had crash landed. That is when everyone got a bit anxious."

He added: "Then there was a second explosion and I thought 'oh my god this is not just a fire'. We are all a bit stunned."

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