By james art 
Updated January 31, 2025 at 14:22
Philadelphia – a medical transport aircraft with a patient of a child and five others aboard a neighborhood in Philadelphia shortly after taking off on Friday night, erupting in a fiery ball that swallowed several homes.
Jet Rescue Air Liculance said the patient and another passenger were on board with four crew members.
“We can’t confirm any survivors,” a company said. “Our immediate care is for the patient’s family, our staff, their families and other victims that may have been hurt on the spot.”
Mayor Cherele Parker said on Wednesday night at a press conference that information about victims was not known immediately, but several homes and vehicles were damaged.
“This is still an active scene in the investigation,” she said.
The crash came only two days after the most deadly air accident in the United States in a generation. On Wednesday night, American Airlines airplane, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, collided in the air in Washington, Colombia, with an army helicopter carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors in this crash.
Over Philadelphia, the bell’s camera filmed footage of the plane, which plunged into a strip of white and exploded when it hit the ground near a shopping center and a main roadway.
“All we heard was a strong roar and we didn’t know where it came from. We just turned and saw the big plume,” said Jim Quinn, the owner of the door camera.
The crash happened at less than 3 miles from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport, which mainly serves business aircraft and charter flights.
The aircraft, Learjet 55, quickly disappeared from the radar after flying out of the airport at 18:06 and climbed to an altitude of 1600 feet. He was on his way to Springfield, Missouri and registered with a company operating like Med Jets, according to flight tracking flights.
Governor Josh Shapiro said he was offering all “community resources while responding to the small private plane crash in northeastern films”.
A continuous flow of police vehicles and fire trucks initially poured into the accident, taking over business parking lots as emergency response to the crash and fire pointing people and put a perimeter stretching blocks in any direction. Within about an hour, the cry of sirens and called orders faded in relative silence at the ends of the closed zone and the darkness settled as the drivers passing past the peek, trying to see what was happening.
The aircraft crashed at a lively intersection near the Mall Roosevelt, an outdoor shopping center in the densely populated neighborhood of Rhawnhurst.
A video for a mobile phone made from moments of witnesses after the plane crash showed a chaotic scene with debris scattered throughout the intersection. The orange wall shone right beyond the intersection, as the slag black smoke quickly rose in the sky and the sirens flared.
The 37 -year -old Michael Shiavon was sitting in his home in Maifer, the nearby neighborhood, on Friday when he heard a strong blow and his house shook. He said he felt like a mini earthquake, and when he checked footage from his home security camera, he said it seemed like a rocket was coming down.
“There was a big explosion, so I decided we were attacked for a second,” he said.
The owner of the aircraft, Jet Rescue, provides global air ambulance services. The company, based in Mexico, flew the baseball hall of the famous David Ortiz in Boston after he was shot in the Dominican Republic in 2019 and participated in the transport of patients critically patients with Covid-19.
The FAA said the National Transport Safety Council would lead the investigation. NTSB, which investigates air crashes, said it collects information about the crash.
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