About 30 seconds after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, the medical transport plane crashed into several buildings, setting homes ablaze and unleashing a fireball into the night sky.
Another individual who was in their car when the plane crashed has also died, Philadelphia’s Mayor confirmed. Officials have said that it would “likely be days” until the total number of casualties was known.
“Many people on the ground – in parking lots, on streets, in cars and homes in the area – were injured,” she added.
Investigators work the scene after a small plane crashed in Philadelphia on Friday evening. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)Firefighters climb up on the roof near the scene of the crash. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)On Wednesday night, an Americans Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided in mid-air with an army helicopter carrying three soldiers, causing both craft to plummet into the Potomac River.
Three black boxes – one from the blackhawk helicopter and two from the jet – have been recovered from the wreckage in the river and will be taken for analysis, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
All those onboard the medical jet involved in Friday night’s crash were Mexican, according to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“So sad to see the plane go down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” US President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Investigators work the scene after a small plane crashed in Philadelphia. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
The Learjet 55 was headed for Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri for a stop off before it was due to continue on to Mexico. Flight logs show it was only in the air for a minute before it crashed at about 18.10pm local time in a busy intersection near Roosevelt Mall.
Michael Schiavone, 37, told The i Paper he had been sitting at his home in Mayfair, a nearby neighborhood, on Friday when he heard a loud bang and his house shook. He said it felt like a mini earthquake and when he checked his home security camera footage, it looked like a missile was coming down. “There was a large explosion, so I thought we were under attack for a second,” he said.
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