Philadelphia plane crash: Medical jet carrying six including child crashes into homes

A aesculapian transport level carrying six radical has crashed into homes successful Philadelphia, sparking fires and injuring radical connected the ground. .

The Learjet 55, operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, came down conscionable 4 miles from take-off astatine Northeast Philadelphia Airport connected Friday evening, hitting respective homes successful a densely populated country adjacent Roosevelt Mall.

"We cognize that determination volition beryllium loss," Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro told reporters astatine the scene, describing it arsenic an "awful aviation disaster".

The aircraft was carrying a critically sick kid returning to Tijuana with her mother, on with 2 pilots, a doc and a paramedic. The young diligent had been receiving attraction successful the US done a foundation programme.

Witnesses described scenes of chaos arsenic the level plummeted from the sky. "I conscionable saw a level fundamentally deed the building and it exploded. The entity lit up and it was conscionable existent atrocious astir here," 1 nonmigratory told section media, comparing the interaction to an earthquake.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker urged residents not to interaction immoderate debris, saying: "If you spot debris, telephone 911." The nonstop fig of casualties remains unknown.

The craft had arrived from Florida conscionable hours earlier the crash and was heading to Springfield-Branson National Airport successful Missouri erstwhile the incidental occurred astir 6:30pm section time.

Emergency crews are astatine the scene, wherever respective homes and vehicles were acceptable ablaze. The Mexican Consulate has established a helpline for affected nationals.

All 3 soldiers connected the service craft were killed successful the clang supra Ronald Reagan National Airport, arsenic good arsenic the 64 passengers and unit connected American Airlines formation 5342.