A Medevac aircraft that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia killed one individual on the bottom and left 19 others hospitalized, along with killing all six folks on board the plane, the town’s mayor stated on Saturday.
“This can be a tragedy in our Metropolis. Folks misplaced their lives and lots of injured on this horrific crash and the harm is important,” Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker posted Saturday on X. “We will formally disclose 6 perished within the aircraft. At the very least another individual perished within the incident,” she stated.
The Learjet 55 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from a Philadelphia airport, and carried two passengers: A baby affected person and the youth’s mom, in addition to 4 crew members, in accordance with Shai Gold, an official with operator Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, in a post on LinkedIn. All had been Mexican residents, Mexico’s overseas affairs ministry said in a submit on X.
“The affected person had acquired care from Shriners Youngsters’s Philadelphia and was being transported again to her residence nation in Mexico on a contracted air ambulance when the crash occurred,” the hospital stated in an announcement.
The crash occurred round 6:30 p.m. native time on Friday, the US Federal Aviation Administration stated in an announcement. The aircraft went down in a residential and purchasing space of Northeast Philadelphia close to the Roosevelt Mall.
The jet was headed to Springfield-Branson Nationwide Airport in Missouri to refuel earlier than heading to Tijuana in Mexico.
The FAA and the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board will examine the accident. The Mexico-registered jet, which is 43 years outdated, is owned by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, according to Flightradar24.
Quite a few movies posted on social media of the crash confirmed the aircraft explode, seemingly a results of the big quantity of jet gasoline it will have been carrying upon take-off.
The dual-engined Learjet is a sort of small enterprise jet, with greater than 3,000 produced in its lifetime. Canadian planemaker Bombardier stopped manufacturing the aircraft in 2021.
The accident occurred lower than 48 hours after a midair collision involving an American Airways Group Inc. regional jet and a US Military helicopter in Washington, D.C. There have been no survivors in Wednesday’s crash, which took 67 lives, and was the worst deadly air accident within the US in many years.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated in a post on X that investigators had been already on the accident web site. He stated he had briefed President Donald Trump and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and his division was providing full assist to native officers.
I’ve spoken with @PhillyMayor and my group is in communication with @PhillyPD @PhilaOEM, and @PhillyFireDept. We’re providing all Commonwealth sources as they reply to the small personal aircraft crash in Northeast Philly.
We’ll proceed to offer updates as extra data is…
— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) February 1, 2025
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