A Victoria police assistant commissioner, Stephen Leane, says the plane that ploughed into a shopping centre near Essendon airport on Tuesday, killing five people, suffered a ‘catastrophic engine failure’ shortly after takeoff. The state premier, Daniel Andrews, says it’s a ‘desperately sad day’ for Victoria, and calls the tragedy ‘the worst civil aviation accident that our state has seen for 30 years’

• Melbourne plane crash that killed five blamed on ‘catastrophic engine failure’