Chilling audio reveals final moments before Philadelphia plane crash: ‘We have a lost aircraft’

Audio from an aerial postulation power operation astatine Northeast Philadelphia Airport reveals the horrific moments earlier a aesculapian ambulance level crashed successful Philadelphia Friday nighttime portion transporting a pediatric patient.

The audio, obtained by Fox News Digital, was recorded moments earlier the level took off. Operators tin beryllium heard speaking arsenic they desperately tried to marque interaction with the Learjet 55 earlier it crashed. 

"What’s going connected down there?" 1 aerial postulation controller tin beryllium heard saying. 

"We person a mislaid aircraft. We’re not precisely definite what happened. So, we’re trying to fig it out," replies different aerial postulation controller. "The tract is going to beryllium closed truthful nary inbounds-outbounds." 

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First responders enactment the country aft a tiny level crashed successful Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the institution operating the plane, said the craft was a Learjet 55 portion departing from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport astir 6:30 p.m. 

The institution said determination were 4 unit members and 2 passengers connected the level astatine the clip – a pilot, copilot, physician, paramedic, pediatric diligent and her mother. They were each Mexican nationals. 

Emergency unit enactment astatine the tract of a level clang successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 31, 2025.  (REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski)

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed determination were six radical connected the plane. The bureau said the level was heading to Springfield-Branson National Airport successful Missouri.

Air Ambulance spokesperson Shai Gold told Fox News Digital the diligent was a Mexican nationalist who was successful the U.S. for life-saving aesculapian treatment. At the extremity of treatment, she was released to spell home.

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John Anderson, a retired aviator from Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital that, based connected the video of the clang and the mode the craft struck the ground, the apt origin was a takeoff stall. 

"The level was retired of the crew’s control. It was not controlled formation into terrain (CFIT). May person been a mechanical malfunction of the stabilizer, elevator, trim oregon adjacent a load displacement rearward wrong the cabin," Anderson said. 

He further speculated that if "it was a aesculapian formation with a stretcher connected committee and the stretcher was not decently secured, it whitethorn person rolled rearward." 

Police vehicles artifact the country surrounding the tract of a level clang successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 31, 2025.  (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters)

"This would origin the chemoreceptor to rise and stall the wing. In that case, the chemoreceptor volition driblet with the space successful the video," helium said. "Because it was close aft takeoff and the archetypal climb, I would accidental it was apt aswing stall. There could beryllium a fig of factors that would origin a stall. Could person been a runaway trim, malfunctioning stabilizer."

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Friday night's catastrophe comes conscionable hardly 48 hours aft a deadly collision betwixt an American Airlines formation and an Army chopper adjacent Reagan National Airport that resulted successful the deaths of 67 people. 

Fox News Digital’s Jenny DeHuff and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.