Investigators have been searching through wreckage to find why a cargo jet crashed in ball of fire seconds after take-off from Stansted Airport.

The crew of four on the Korean Air 747 are all believed to have died in last night's crash at Hatfield Forest country park, near to the busy M11 and the villages of Little and Great Hallingbury.

A man's body and other remains, plus a black box flight recorder, have been found at the remote woodland spot.

For more on this story, see articles marked 'Stansted crash' in the Newsround section

Useful links:

The BAA website: Click here

More Stansted information from BAA: Click here

Korean Air: Korean Air

Latest update from Korean Air (without frame): Korean Air

The aircraft plummeted to the ground and exploded. The crew - all Korean nationals - had no time to make a mayday call, investigators confirmed today.

A length of explosive cord has been recovered from the cargo remains. Essex Police Deputy Chief Constable Charles Clark said they were ruling nothing out of the investigation.

The impact was so great it shook passengers and staff at the airport terminal. Road closures around the crash site, plus accidents on the A12, paralysed roads across Essex.

Police confirmed the aircraft had been carrying a "small quantity of explosives" but the lengthy cargo list is still being pored over.

The Korean Airways Boeing 747 200, bound for Seoul via Milan, crashed in driving rain at 6.42pm last night.

Hundreds of Essex firefighters and police officers responded quickly to emergency calls.

Responding to witness reports of an explosion on the aircraft as it took off, Ken Smart, airport chief security officer, said no conclusions would be reached until investigators had studied the evidence of the flight recorder.

Flights due to land at Stansted in the wake of the crash were diverted to Cambridge and Luton, and 35 flight departures were cancelled, stranding 2,000 people at one of the airport's busiest times of the year. The airport reopened at 10am today.

Essex Police have set up a public information hotline for travel from Stansted on 01245 490990.

Crash scene - the emergency services have spent the day sifting through pieces of wreckage

Converted for the new archive on 19 November 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.