The company that runs the medical ambulance plane that crashed on Friday night in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDuring the transportation of a children with a children, he was running another plane in a fatal collision that occurred more than a year ago.
On Friday, Jet Resue Air Air Ambulance, the company that runs aircraft in both accidents, said that Learjet 55 was crashed while leaving from Northeast Philadelphia airport at approximately 6:30 pm, the accident occurred in a street near the Roosevelt Mall.
The company said that four crew members and two passengers-a pediatric patient and her mother-were on board in the Philadelphia accident, which was heading to Springfield Branson National Airport in Missouri. They were all Mexican citizens.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the number of crew members and passengers. The crew members included a pilot, Copilot, a doctor, and a paramedic.
Smoke rises with emergency personnel at the site of a plane crash in Philadelphia, on Friday. (Reuters/Rachel Wesnovsky)
Jet Rescue Air Air Ambulance operated Learjet 35a in November 2023 who participated in a fatal collision in southern Mexico.
In this accident, the plane crashed when landing Quirnavaka Airport In Morielus, Mexico, on November 1, 2023, after leaving from Toloca International Airport in Toloka. Five members of the crew were reported with no passengers on board and there are no survivors.
Jet Resue Air Sampulance said that no names will be released in the Philadelphia accident on Friday until family members are notified.
“Our immediate concern is the patient's family, our individuals, their families and other victims who may have been injured on the ground,” the company said in a statement.
The debris is located from a plane on the ground at the location of a plane crash in Philadelphia on Friday. (Reuters/Rachel Wesnovsky)
The plane was It is scheduled to fly Gold's Ambulance spokesman, Gold, told Fox News from Philadelphia to Tijuana International Airport, with one technical station in Springfield, Missouri, for fuel.
The patient was in the United States to receive life -saving medical treatment and was released to return home after treatment. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the plane was on its way to Missouri at the time of the accident.
“The plane has been loaded with flammable jet fuel,” Gold said. “There is no indication that anyone survived, and by the debris field, I will be surprised by the pleasure of learning otherwise.”
The mayor of Philadelphia Cheres Parker said at a press conference on Friday night that she could not confirm the number of deaths.
A senior Philadelphia official to extinguish Fox News said that the fires caused by the accident were “now under control.” The official said when the plane fell, and sprayed jet fuel, where the homes of the near -row, which rose in the fire, said.
The first respondents are working in the scene after the witnesses say it crashed a plane in Philadelphia, on Friday. (Matt Rork/AP)
The official said that six homes and six cars were fire.
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The National Transport Safety Council is led by the investigation and will help the Federal Aviation Administration. The alcohol office, tobacco, firearms and Philadelphia explosives said it was at the site.
US Transport Secretary Sean Duffy posted on X that he had briefed President Donald Trump and the governor of Pennsylvania state Josh Shapiro.
