Air ambulance service involved in Philadelphia plane crash once flew MLB icon David Ortiz after he got shot

A aesculapian transport pitchy headed for Missouri and carrying a kid diligent and 5 others crashed successful Northeast Philadelphia Friday night. 

The pitchy was portion of the Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which provides planetary ambulance formation services.

It's the aforesaid work that erstwhile helped transport Boston Red Sox fable and MLB Hall of Famer David Ortiz with a captious wounded aft helium was changeable successful his location state of the Dominican Republic June 9, 2019, astatine a barroom successful Santo Domingo. 

Ortiz was severely wounded but survived exigency surgery.

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A information of Ortiz's intestines, colon and gallbladder were removed, and helium besides reportedly had liver damage. The adjacent day, a Jet Rescue level transported Ortiz to Boston, wherever helium received further attraction astatine Massachusetts General Hospital, including a 2nd surgery.

Ortiz was moved retired of the intensive attraction portion connected June 22, 2019, and helium was released from the infirmary implicit a period aboriginal connected July 26, 2019. 

David Ortiz Aug. 16, 2024, successful New York City (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Fanatics)

The suspected shooter was aboriginal identified arsenic Rolfi Ferreira-Cruz, but an probe besides recovered Ortiz was not the intended target. The Dominican Attorney General announced June 19, 2019, Ortiz was changeable by mistake, and Sixto David Fernandez was identified arsenic the intended people of the shooting.

On Friday, Jet Rescue said it's Learjet 55 crashed portion departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport astir 6:30 p.m.

"Our contiguous interest is for the patient's family, our personnel, their families and different victims that whitethorn person been wounded connected the ground," Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said successful a statement. 

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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to respond to the tragedy.

"So bittersweet to spot the level spell down successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More guiltless souls lost. Our radical are wholly engaged," Trump wrote. "First Responders are already being fixed recognition for doing a large job. More to follow. God Bless you all."

The clang comes conscionable days aft an American Airlines rider level collided with an Army Black Hawk Helicopter adjacent Reagan National Airport, sidesplitting 67 people.

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