A medical transport jet with a children’s patient and five adults plunged into a quarter in Philadelphia shortly after the start on Friday evening and exploded in a fireball that devoured several houses.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said that the patient and another passenger were on board with four crew members.
“We cannot confirm survivors,” said the company in a statement. “Our immediate concern is the family of the patient, our staff, their families and other victims who may have been violated on site.”
The mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker, said on Wednesday evening at a press conference that information about deaths was not immediately known, but several houses and vehicles had been damaged.
“This is still an active scene that is being examined,” she said.
The crash comes just two days after the deadliest US air disaster of a generation. On Wednesday evening, an American Airlines Jet came with 60 passengers and four crew members in Washington, DC, with a helicopter of the army with three soldiers. There were no survivors With this crash.
“Everything we heard was a loud roaring”
A doorbell camera made film material of the aircraft about Philadelphia, which fell on the floor in a white and exploded shot in a fireball in a residential area near a shopping center and a large road.
“We only heard a loud roar and didn’t know where it would come from. We just turned around and saw the big cloud,” said Jim Quinn, the owner of the doorbell camera.
The crash occurred less than five kilometers from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, which mainly serves business jets and charter flights.
The aircraft, a Learjet 55, quickly disappeared from the radar after it was removed from the airport and climbed to a height of 487 meters. It was on the way to Springfield, Mo.
US President Donald Trump posted Truth Social in his social media platform that it was “so sad” to see news about the crash.
“More innocent souls lost,” he said. “Our people are totally engaged.”
Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania Governor said It offers all “Commonwealth resources while they react to the small private plane crash in the northeast of Philly”.
A continuous stream of police vehicles and fire trucks initially flocked into the scene and took over business parking spaces as rescue workers on the crash and the fire that people meadow away and set up an extent block in every direction. Within about an hour the scream of the sirens and the commands on the edges of the closed area faded in relative silence, and the darkness was committed to seeing and trying to see what happened as a driver.
The plane crashed at a busy intersection near Roosevelt Mall, an outdoor shopping center in the densely populated district of Rhawnhurst.
A cell phone video that was recorded by a witness moments after the aircraft crashed showed a chaotic scene with rubble that was scattered over the intersection. An orange wall shone directly behind the intersection when a black cloud of smoke quickly climbed into the sky and the sirens bloomed.
“I thought we were attacked.”
The 37 -year -old Michael Schiavone was sitting in his house in Mayfair on Friday, a nearby neighborhood, when he heard a loud bang and his house trembling. He said it felt like a mini earthquake and when he checked his home material for the security cameras at home, he said that it looked like a rocket was run down.
“There was a big explosion, so I thought we were attacked for a second,” he said.
The owner of the aircraft, Jet Rescue, offers global flight ban. The company based in Mexico flew the baseball -Hall from Famer David Ortiz to Boston After he was shot in the Dominican Republic in 2019 and was involved in the transport of patients with Covid-19.
A message that was looking for a comment was left behind with the US headquarters by Jet Rescue in Boca Raton, Fla.
The FAA said the US National Transportation Safety Board would lead the examination. The board said it collected information.
