Inside doomed medevac jet before it crashed in Philadelphia killing seven - as black box is discovered eight feet underground

Chilling photos captured the interior of a aesculapian pitchy earlier it crashed successful Philadelphia Friday night, sidesplitting 7 radical and injuring 22 others - arsenic authorities anticipation the plane's achromatic container could supply answers.

Jet Rescue Air, the institution that operated the Learjet 55, released the photos from its interior, showing a stretcher covered with a achromatic expanse and surrounded by assorted pieces of aesculapian instrumentality utilized to way vitals and attraction for a patient.

Two seats could beryllium seen positioned adjacent to the stretcher, with 2 others adjacent the ft of the bed.

A spokesperson for the institution called the medevac chopper - which was transporting 11-year-old Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, 31, astatine the clip of the clang - a 'flying ICU setting' successful comments to Fox News.

The tiny level crashed astatine astir 6.30pm, soon aft it departed Northeast Philadelphia Airport connected its mode to Springfield-Branson National Airport successful Missouri.

It was past to proceed connected to Tijuana, Mexico, wherever Murillo, Ozuna and each the unit members were from.

Circumstances surrounding the fiery clang stay unclear, but officials hoped that the cockpit dependable recorder - commonly referred to arsenic a plane's 'black box' - whitethorn supply much answers.

It was recovered 8 feet underground astatine the tract of impact, which near a crater successful the mediate of a northeastern Philadelphia thoroughfare - but sources told 6ABC the achromatic container was successful 'decent shape.' 

The National Transportation Safety Board besides announced Sunday that it had recovered the plane's enhanced crushed proximity warning, which could besides incorporate formation data, and some engines.

Those components volition present beryllium sent to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Lab successful Washington DC for evaluation, portion the wreckage volition beryllium sent to a unafraid determination successful Delaware for further examination.

But Shai Gold, the managing manager of firm strategy and communications for Air Ambulance, antecedently said their was 'absolutely nary indication' of immoderate issues with the level anterior to the crash.

Maintenance records connected the craft were 'impeccable,' helium noted and the institution goes by the publication - pursuing shaper specifications.

Gold besides said the full unit onboard the pitchy were top-notch.

'The formation squad [is] precise experienced,' helium said. 'We prime the champion of the champion to alert those aerial ambulances. 

'These are precise careful, precise seasoned individuals.'

The level was carrying Valentina and her parent backmost to Mexico, aft she spent months completing attraction astatine Shriners Children’s Philadelphia infirmary for a information that could not easy beryllium treated successful Mexico.

It reached astir 1,500 feet earlier it plummeted to the ground. 

In aerial postulation controller audio, a controller at Northeast Philadelphia Airport telling the pitchy to crook close erstwhile departing.

The aerial postulation controller repeated the petition conscionable astir 30 seconds later, earlier asking the aviator 'what frequency' they were on.

Social media debated the adjacent portion of their conversation, arsenic sharp-eared listeners said they could perceive 1 broadside saying the different was 'talking with the incorrect people.' 

A fewer seconds aft that remark, an ominous moan could beryllium heard coming from what respective societal media idiosyncratic believed was the cockpit.

After a little pause, an aerial postulation controller asked, 'What's going connected down there?', to which different dispatcher answered: 'We person a mislaid aircraft.' 

'We're not precisely definite what happened, we're trying to fig it out,' they added. 'For now, the tract is going to beryllium closed.' 

The clang site, adjacent Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard, rapidly became engulfed successful flames, with buildings and vehicles caught successful the inferno. 

National Transportation Safety Board seat Jennifer Homendy called it a 'high-impact crash' that near the level 'highly fragmented.' 

Seven radical were killed successful the tragedy, including Valentina and her mother, arsenic good arsenic the unit members onboard the jet.

They person since been identified arsenic aviator Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales and co-pilot Josué Juárez of Veracruz, arsenic good as Dr. Raúl Meza Arredondo and paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padilla.

A seventh unfortunate was killed wrong a car arsenic debris from the Learjet 55 exploded into the neighborhood, damaging adjacent homes. That unfortunate has not yet been identified.

Meanwhile, the fig of radical injured from the clang roseate to 22, Mayor Cherelle Parker announced Sunday.

Five remained successful the hospital, and 3 were near successful captious condition. 

Among the injured is 1 pistillate who remains successful a medically-induced coma, her relative told NBC Philadelphia.

'Seventy percent of her assemblage is burnt,' Shantelle Fletcher said of 33-year-old Dominique, who was traveling with her longtime spouse and her lad to a Macy's store astatine a adjacent promenade erstwhile the clang occurred.

'They ne'er made it to Macy's,' Fletchere said. 'On the mode there, that's erstwhile the level had crashed and their conveyance was adjacent the blast area.'

Fortunately, she said, her relative is responding good to medication.

Another idiosyncratic who remains hospitalized is 10-year-old Trey Howard, whose begetter explained that helium was deed successful the caput by a portion of metallic portion successful a adjacent car.

Alexis Lloyd, meanwhile, mislaid her location successful the explosion.

Her sister, Saleena Temple, said she was conscionable a fewer feet distant from the interaction sight, cooking, erstwhile the level clang landed - and caused her windows to implode.

But Lloyd was putting thing successful the trash successful her kitchen, bending implicit astatine the time.

'She could person been struck by glass,' Temple said.

'We judge successful God, truthful we astir decidedly judge that, you cognize God had hands connected her.' 

At slightest 11 homes were importantly damaged successful the explosion, on with immoderate businesses, Parker said Sunday.

But section officials warned determination could beryllium adjacent much victims, arsenic they urged residents to cheque connected their neighbors.

'If determination is idiosyncratic who you deliberation whitethorn person been successful the country and they're missing and they haven't checked successful and you can't scope them oregon they unrecorded there, telephone 911,' metropolis managing manager Adam Thiel pleaded. 

He noted that the associated probe team, comprising astir 30 local, authorities and national agencies stay connected the crushed to measure the damage.

'They person a batch of processing yet to bash of the scene,' Thiel said. 'We person not yet recovered everything we request to retrieve from the scene.'

Parker besides announced that officials were going doorway to doorway to question accusation from vicinity residents.

In the meantime, she urged patience.

'It's successful times of situation erstwhile you should retrieve who you are, and we person to retrieve what defines Philadelphia,' the politician said, according to WHYY.  

'We are a beardown people, a resilient radical who intelligibly recognize however and wherefore it is truthful important that we instrumentality attraction of each other.'