7 dead, 24 injured after air ambulance accident in Philadelphia

Philadelphia – seven people including a person in a car, when one was killed Six crashed air ambulances near a mall in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday night,

Six people were identified as captains in the aircraft. Alan Alejandro Montoya Parales, co-pilot Jose de Jeesus Juarez Juarez, Dr. Raul Meja Aradondo, Paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padila, patient Valentina Gujman Murillo and his mother, Leaseth Murillo Ozuna.

Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said no person on the board was likely to survive.

Mayor Cherael Parker said in a news briefing on Monday that the number of victims injured on the ground, where many houses and vehicles were affected, climbed 24.

Parker said that four of them are hospitalized, two in critical condition. No additional information was shared about their injuries.

Parker said on Sunday, “We are not out of the honor of their families and their loved ones, shared the names of any of them, which have been affected.”

The village. Josh Shapiro on Monday took a moment to appreciate the community to come together in view of the accident. He recalled a person in a green hudi, who ran towards the accident to help the injured.

“I am grateful to my first respondents and law enforcement that they play their role to save their lives,” Shapiro said. “I am grateful to my neighbors in the Northeast Phili to save my life to save life, and I am especially grateful to Mayor Parker for his extraordinary leadership in the city of Philadelphia.”

Air ambulance was traveling from Northeast Philadelphia Airport to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri, when it crashed near Roosevelt Mall around 6:30 pm

Learjet flight path

National Transport Safety Board Chairman Jennifer Homendi said at a news conference on Saturday evening that the accident was being classified as an accident.

Senior Air Safety Investigator for NTSB and Senior Air Safety Investigator in charge of Investigation, Ralph Hicks said on Saturday evening that Lijet 55 left Florida around 12 noon and reached the north -supply Philadelphia Airport and arrived at around 2:15 pm Waiting on the ground. A few hours before leaving around 6:06 pm, he said.

After the takeoff, the jet climbed about 1,500 feet, said Hicks said. It turned a minor right twist, a minor left twist and then a “vertical descent” where it eventually crashed.

Homendi said that the track of the flight does not suggest anything yet and NTSB will continue to evaluate all the available information.

He said that the flight deck did not explain anything to the air traffic control tower before the accident.

The federal aviation administration is also investigating.

Foreign Ministry of Mexico Said on x All passengers were Mexican citizens. The Mexican Consulate said that the authorities have approached families of all six people.

The consulate stated, “The necessary consular assistance is being provided and working with the authorities to clarify what has happened to what has happened.” post on Facebook,

A spokesman for an air ambulance company told NBC Philadelphia The patient was from Mexico and came to the United States for “life-saving treatment” and was returning home. The spokesman said the last destination was Tijuana International Airport, where a ground ambulance had to take the child home.

Cockpit voice recorder found

Officials said the area of ​​influence is “about four to six blocks” and that the debris was found in remote areas.

Homendi stated that NTSB focuses on collecting poor evidence, which may require the scene to do debris and anything else.

The board said in a statement on Sunday that the cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft was found to be 8 feet deep instead of impact. It was painted as an important piece of evidence for investigators that can help help to determine potentially unknown in the accident and help establish a timeline.

“It is probably damaged,” Homendi said on Saturday, before the device is found. “It may be fragmented.”

The NTSB said on Sunday that the increased land proximity of the airplane, which may have some flight data, has also been recovered.

Both components will be sent to NTSB vehicle recorders laboratory at Washington, DC for evaluation. NTSB officials have said that despite being damaged in accidents, the agency’s ability to extract information from such devices is unique.

The board said that NTSB investigators have also recovered both engines and would continue working at the scene, where debris was expected to be recovered on Monday. The debris recovered at a safe place in Delaware will be investigated.

Homendi said that NTSB did not know about the debris or anything else, before he went down. He said that this witness welcomes the video.

29 -year -old Odalis Acosta said that she was helping a customer at four season dinner when she “moved everything.”

He said that people fell to the ground in the restaurant because the glass around them was shattered. A heavy piece of metal hit a customer in the head.

“You heard the explosion. I look at the side, and I look at the big ball of the explosion through the window, ”he told NBC News.

The video showed fire and heavy smoke billing in the air.

The aircraft crashed a few days later 67 people killed when an American airlines passenger aircraft collided with a black Hawk helicopter Near Washington, DC

Transport Secretary Sean Dafi said that the voice recorder can provide information about what happened in the earlier moments before the accident.

Dafi said at a press conference on Monday, “We hope to receive their initial report within 30 days, and we are committed to being as transparent as much as possible with information.”

Dafi appreciated the work of NTSB and FAA investigators, Philadelphia officials and the first respondents. He vowed to work with the city and the state even after the “news cycle of the news cycle”.

“We won’t forget,” said Dafi. We are going to stand in partnership with your community and this wonderful team, which you all have created, I have got a chance to meet, and they are only they are remarkable American, and it is a pleasure to meet them. Was.

Maya Eagleen reported from Philadelphia and from Pittsburgh to Minivon Burke.