A plane with 2 people on board crashes and sets homes on fire in Philadelphia
An Airborne Medical Jet in Philadelphia, PA, Was Collited with a Plane from Saudi Arabia, Air Jordan, and an Army Sherpa
Northeast Philadelphia Airport, which serves business jets and charter flights, is less than 3 miles from the crash site. The residential homes appear to have caught fire in the photos.
The crash came just two days after 67 people were killed in a midair collision between American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C. That crash is considered the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in over two decades.
The plane that vanished from the radar after taking off from Philadelphia appeared to be a plane from Saudi Arabia. It was en route to Springfield, Missouri, and registered to a company operating as Med Jets, according to the flight tracking website Flight Aware.
Michael Schiavone, 37, was sitting at his home in Mayfair on Friday when he heard a loud bang and his house shook. He said it felt like a mini earthquake, and when he checked his home security camera footage, he said, it looked like a missile was coming down. “There was a large explosion, so I thought we were under attack for a second,” he said.
A small jet went off the radar about 30 seconds after climbing to an altitude of 1,600 feet, according to flight data.
First responders were blocking traffic near the intersection of Roosevelt Mall and Rhawnhurst street where the plane crashed because there were many onlookers gathered on the street corner. Philadelphia’s emergency management office said that roads are closed in the area.
Jim Quinn, 56, lives about a half-mile from the crash site. He was leaving his home Friday evening when he heard the crash. We didn’t know where the loud roar was coming from. We just turned around and saw the big plume.”
The plane’s owner, Jet Rescue, provides global air ambulance services. The company, based in Mexico, flew baseball hall of famer David Ortiz to Boston after he was shot in the Dominican Republic in 2019 and was involved in transporting patients critically ill with COVID-19.
All six people on the small plane were killed in the crash of the plane near the shopping center in northeast Philadelphia on Friday night.
At a press conference on Saturday, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker confirmed that one person on the ground was killed in the crash. The person is inside a car. At the same time, she did not specify how many of the injured were in critical condition.
“This is still a very active and fluid situation,” Thiel said at the press conference. It will likely be days or more until we are able to answer a question about the number of people who died in the tragedy and what the fate was for those who were injured.
Eye witnesses reported seeing an explosion in the shape of a mushroom cloud. There were videos and photos of a neighborhood that was engulfed in flames. Five fires erupted following the crash and have since been extinguished, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson said Saturday.
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He said that if you are somewhere not even near this location, or the Northeast Airport, you could find something in your yard.
The child patient had finished treatment for an illness at Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and was returning to her home country, according to the hospital.
The six people were flying in a Learjet 55, operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which specializes in air ambulances across Mexico, Latin America and the U.S.
The company was paid by a third-party organization to bring the child home to Mexico.
Among those on board were a pilot, copilot, doctor and paramedic, Gold added. The company said no names would be made public until all the families were notified.
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All six people on board an airborne medical jet were killed in the crash of the plane near a shopping center in northeast Philadelphia on Friday night. A child patient had finished treatment for an illness at Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and was returning to her home country, according to the hospital.