‘Superhero’, 10, saved younger sister in Phili plane crash

A 10 -year -old “superhero” protected his younger sister Last week aircraft accident in Philadelphia – And now he is recovering from being applied to the head by a piece of metal from a jet, his family said.

Andre was receiving donuts with his father and two siblings in the Howard car, when the Mexico-Bound Air Ambulance crashed after 6 pm on Friday evening near the Roosevelt Bulleward and Cottman Avenue, in which seven died and several were killed and several. Other people were injured.

“Hearing what we thought was that there was a car accident, but then you see a fury of air fire, then a bunch of debris shooting everywhere,” his father also named Andre Howard, ABC6 Action News.

“My son … tells his younger sister, ‘Get down!’ “He continues,” and he holds it (AS) I listen to the shatter of glass.

A good Samarit raced, removed the shirt from his back and pressured the injured boy’s head.

Then a policeman from a city rushed him to Jefferson Toracdel Hospital, where doctors immediately worked.

“He told us that my son was not going to make it,” said Howard. “He also told us,” They don’t hurt children. ” But he did for us, which was nothing but God. ,

Andre’s shook mother, Lashvan Hamel, told the station that it was difficult to see her child in this way.

“What am I going to do as a mother?” He said through tears. “But that’s good. He is pushing through. He is strong, he is a jokester, but he is strong. He is a superhero. ,

Andre’s father also said the same thing.

Howard said, “Tomorrow, to face death and speak today, steps for my younger sister, as I train him and his other younger brothers to remove them from the instinct – he is my hero.”

Hamel said that doctors are trying to keep the boy stable and comfortable, while they find out how to move forward.

The surprising accident of Learjet 55 injured 22 people and killed seven: Valentina Guzman Murillo, 11; His mother, Lizath Murillo Ozuna, 31; Captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Paralaces; Co-pilot Jose de Jesus Juarez Juarez; Dr. Raul Meja Aradondo; Paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padila; And an audience on the ground.

Valentina had received only life -saving treatment at Shriners Children Hospital and was going home in Mexico when the aircraft fell directly into the neighborhood.

One in Sunday Facebook PostSusan Mary Fasino wrote that she helped the mother and daughter, who was suffering from Spina Bifida and finished treatment for diseases including a pressure.

He said, “We helped him to the Philadelphia Shrinters for strict medical care,” he wrote, saying that Valentina was “very weak, saying.”

“The plan was to love the rest of his life with love and bring home to live with his family,” he said. “Her mother was one of the most vigilant mothers who could ever be a child. He did not really leave his side. ,

This news gave a tough fight to the hospital staff, spokesperson Mel Bover said.

Bover said, “It is very difficult and extremely difficult, people who were directly involved in his care were very aware that she was going to travel home and was actually sent for her today.”

Jet was scheduled to stay at Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri, then headed by Mexico.

The crash scene spread several blocks, and about a dozen houses and businesses were damaged.

Five people are still in the hospital.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherael Parker said of the dead, “Our city mourns their loss and they are in our thoughts and prayers.”

The National Transport Safety Board is investigating the accident and has allegedly recovered the black box of the aircraft.