The company that crashed the medical ambulance that crashed that Friday night Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaWhile the transport of a pediatric patient operated another aircraft in a fatal crash that took place more than a year ago.
On Friday, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the company that operated the aircraft in both incidents, said that a LearJet crashed 55 during departure from the northeast of Philadelphia Airport around 6.30 pm. The incident happened on a street near Roosevelt Mall.
Four crew members and two passenger a pediatric patient and her mother-sessen on the plane in the Philadelphia crash on their way to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri, the company said. They were all Mexican nationals.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the number of crew members and passengers. The crew members include a pilot, a Copilot, a doctor and a paramedic.
Smoke rises as aid workers on the site of a plane crash in Philadelphia, Friday. (Reuters/Rachel Wisniewski)
In November 2023, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance operated a Learjet 35A that was involved in a deadly crash in South -Mexico.
In that incident, the plane crashed on landing Cuernavaca Airport In Morelos, Mexico, on November 1, 2023, after departure from Toluca International Airport in the city of Toluca. There were five crew members without passengers on board and no survivors, the Airmed & Rescue website reported at the time.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said that no names in the Philadelphia crash will be released on Friday until family members have been informed.
“Our direct care is for the patient’s family, our staff, their families and other victims who may have been injured,” the company said in a statement.
Drawing of an airplane is located on the floor at the location of a plane crash in Philadelphia on Friday. (Reuters/Rachel Wisniewski)
The plane was planned to fly From Philadelphia to Tijuana International Airport, with one technical stop in Springfield, Missouri, for fuel, spokesperson for the Air Ambulance Shai Gold told Fox News.
The patient was in the US for life -saving medical treatment and was released to go home after treatment. The FAA confirmed that the plane was on its way to Missouri at the time of the crash.
“The plane was loaded with aircraft fuel that is very flammable,” Gold said. “There are no indications that someone survived, and because of the rubble field I would be pleasantly surprised to learn differently.”
Mayor of Philadelphia Cherelle Parker said on Friday evening at a press conference that she could not confirm the number of fatalities.
A senior Filadelphia fire brigade officer told Fox News that the fires are caused by the crash ‘are now under control’. The official said that when the plane went down, the aircraft fuel sprayed, which ran near the terraced houses nearby, who went up in flames.
First Responders work the scene after what witnesses was a plane crash in Philadelphia, Friday. (Matt Rourke/AP)
Six houses and six cars set fire to the civil servant.
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The National Transportation Safety Board leads the research and the FAA will help. The Alcohol, Tobacco Office, firearms and explosives Philadelphia said it was also on the spot.
The US Department of Transport Secretary Sean Duffy placed on X that he President Donald Trump and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro had informed.
