Medical jet with six on board crashes into neighbourhood

Friday evening, a small medical transport plane crashed in several buildings in the northeast of Philadelphia, fixing houses and vehicles in flames and injuring people on the ground.

The plane had been on a medical transport mission, transporting a patient child and his mother, and four crew members.

“We know that there will be a loss,” said Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro at a press conference on the scene of the accident, calling him a “horrible aviation catastrophe”.

Videos of the online incident show that the plane descends quickly and triggers a huge fireball.

The six people on board were Mexican, the country’s foreign ministry said on x. The plane went to Springfield, Missouri.

A spokesman for the University Hospital-Jeana temple in Philadelphia said he had treated six people injured on the ground during the accident.

Three have been treated and released, while the details are not yet known about the state of the other three.

The plane left the northeast of Philadelphia Airport around 6:07 p.m., it crashed less than four miles (6.4 km) a few moments later, reported the American BBC CBS partner .

The first emergency calls came out around 6:12 p.m., he added.

In a press release, Jared Solomon, representative of the state for the northeast of Philadelphia, said: “In times of deep tragedy, I was inspired to attend hundreds of our first stakeholders Sprinter to the danger to ensure the security of our neighborhood. “

Witnesses have described bursts of the accident, damaging cars and sending burning debris in the streets. Photos of the consequences show cars on fire mngorlies.

The accident occurred at a few houses from Roosevelt Mall, a three-story shopping center in a densely populated part of Philadelphia, the fifth largest city in the United States.

The area is filled with terraced and shops housing.

Fire managers said several houses caught fire in the Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard region, CBS reported.

A man who spoke with CBS said he was driving in the region when he heard a swirling sound and then a strong explosion.

“Everyone just started screaming,” he said.

Another witness told local media that the explosion “illuminated the whole sky”.

“I just saw a plane hit the building essentially and it exploded. The sky turned and I stopped and basically it was really bad here”, the witness said wpvi-tvDescribing the accident as a feeling of earthquake.

Ryan Tian, ​​23, said The Philadelphia Inquirer He dined when he saw a “massive fire ball” which turned the orange sky. “I thought we were attacked by something,” he said.

The daughter of the plane, from Tijuana, Mexico, had received treatment at the Philadelphia of the Children Shriners, according to spokesperson for Mel Bower, reports CBS.

Mr. Bower said her treatment had ended and that she was on the way back, and that there had been “a shipment” to the hospital for her earlier.

He added that two doctors on the plane came from the Air Rescue Air ambulance jet.

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The Mexican Foreign Ministry said that the staff of the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia were in contact with those who were in flight.

The mayor of Philadelphia, Cherrelle Parker, said that city officials did not know the number of deaths, but that the city “asks prayers for anyone and all those who could be assigned”.

“If you see debris, call 911, do not touch anything,” she told city residents.

According to data on Flightaware, a flight tracking website, the plane was operated by a company called Med Jets, and arrived in Philadelphia from Florida less than four hours earlier.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating.

In a statement, President Donald Trump said that his administration was “fully committed”.

“So sad to see the plane fall to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More innocent souls have lost,” he said.