A yet to be disclosed number of people feared dead on Friday night after a medical transport jet crashed near a popular mall in Northeast Philadelphia. The company says a pediatric patient were among those on board and presumed dead.
TheNewsGuru reports that the Learjet 55 reportedly departed from Northeast Philadelphia Airport shortly before it crashed.
According to Shai Gold, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance spokesperson, all six people aboard were from Mexico. A child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home to Mexico.
The patient and her mother were on board along with four crew members. Gold said, the plane which had seasoned crew was on a “medical assignment” and was headed to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri.
The plane possibly hit multiple buildings in the area.
Reacting to the unfortunate incident, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a news conference late Friday that officials expect fatalities in this “awful aviation disaster.”
“We know that there will be loss,” he said.
The crash came just two days after an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided in midair in Washington, D.C., with an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors in that crash.
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