Philadelphia – Six people were killed on a medical transport jet crashed in Philadelphia. This is according to Mexican President Claudia Shinbam.
The dead included a child who was treating Philadelphia Hospital and her mother.
At least six people were injured on the ground in the accident on Friday.
Mexican President Claudia Shinbam expressed condolences on Saturday morning in a statement on the social media platform X.
“I mourn the passage of six Mexican in Philadelphia, the United States. Consular officers are in constant contact with families; I have asked the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to support whatever is necessary. My solidarity with his loved ones and friends, ”he said in a statement written in Spanish.
The medical transport jet was transporting a child who had just treated the Shriners Children Hospital, her mother and four others for a life-threatening position. It crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood immediately after the takeoff on Friday evening, an explosion in a fire that surrounded several houses.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance operated Learjet 55. Everyone in the flight was from Mexico. According to Jet Rescue spokesman Shai Gold, the child was being taken home. The last destination of the flight after a stop in Missouri was Tijuana.
The patient and his mother were on the board with four crew members. Gold said it was an experienced crew and all those involved in these flights go through rigorous training.
“When such an incident occurs, it is shocking and amazing,” Gold told the Associated Press. “All aircraft are creating, not a penny because we know that our mission is so important.”
Pennsylvania village. Josh Shapiro said at a news conference late Friday that the authorities had expected to be fatal in “terrible aviation disaster”.
Jennifer Reardon, a spokesman at Temple University Hospital-Zees, said that he had treated six people with injuries to the accident. Three of those people were released since then and others were in proper position. She was not able to provide information about her injuries or where people were when people maintained them.
The aircraft was registered in Mexico. Jet rescue is located in Mexico and is operated in both there and America.
The accident occurred two days after the deadliest American air disaster in a generation. On Wednesday night, an American airline jet collided with 60 passengers and four crew members in Washington, DC, with an army helicopter to three soldiers. No one was left.
The Philadelphia accident was the second fatal incident for jet rescue in 15 months. Five crew members were killed in 2023 when their aircraft fell out of a runway in the central Mexican state of Morelos and crashed into a hill.
In Philadelphia, a doorbell camera captured the video of the aircraft in a white and explosion streak, along with a shopping mall and collision with the ground near the Major Roadway.
“We heard that there was a loud roar and did not know where it was coming from. We just roam around and looked at the big plum, ”said Jim Quinn, owner of the doorbell camera.
The accident occurred at a distance of less than 3 miles from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport, which mainly serves business jets and charter flights.
Learjet 55 quickly disappeared from the radar after flying from the airport at 6:06 pm and climbed at an altitude of 1,600 feet. According to the flight tracking website Flight Aware, it was registered in a company working as a med jet.
Shortly after 6 pm, the audio recorded by LiveATC captured an air traffic controller, stating that “Medevac Medservice 056” to turn right while departing. About 30 seconds after asking the request before asking, “You on frequency?” After minutes, the controller states, “We have a lost aircraft. We are not sure what happened, so we are trying to find it. The ground is going to be closed for now. ,
In a post on social media platform Truth social, President Donald Trump said: “It is very sad to see the aircraft going down in Philadelphia.”
“More innocent souls were lost,” he said. “Our people are fully engaged.”
A continuous section of police vehicles and fire trucks initially responded to the accident site, taken to the trade parking lot. Within about an hour, the cry of sirens and screaming orders had fallen calm on the sides of the closed area, and settled in the dark that drivers tried to see the passengers passing to see what was happening.
The aircraft crashed into a busy intersection near the Roosevelt Mall, an outdoor shopping center in a densely populated neighborhood of Ravanharst.
After the accident, a cellphone video taken by the moments of a witness showed a chaotic scene with scattered debris at the intersection. A wall of orange shines just as a pile of black smoke and bounced sirens in the sky.
37 -year -old Michael Shiawon, sitting at his house in a neighborhood in a neighborhood, when he bangs a loud explosion and his house. He said it felt like a mini earthquake and when he examined his domestic security camera, it seemed that a missile came down.
“There was a big explosion, so I thought we were attacking for a second,” he said.
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The FAA said that the National Transport Safety Board would lead the investigation. The NTSB said that an investigator arrived on Friday and more officials would come there on Saturday.