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The Mayor on Friday night on the North-East Philadelphia, after the twin-engine Medwack Jet carrying a twin-engineer to a patient in a neighborhood of Philadelphia, includes a car on the ground, including a car on the ground, on Friday night Crashed in a neighborhood in North-East Philadelphia. At least 19 were injured on the ground.
Six people in the aircraft were Mexican citizens, the President of Mexico said on Saturday morning.
“I mourn the death of six Mexican in Philadelphia, a plane crash in the United States,” said Claudia Shinbam. “Consular officers are in permanent contact with families; I have told the Ministry of External Affairs to support them whatever is needed. My solidarity with his loved ones and friends. ,
Aircraft accident, about 150 miles in north -east of Washington, DC, came as area officials Continue their investigation In Wednesday’s deadly collision. An American Airlines Regional Jet Take 64 people And an US army with three soldiers collided on the Black Hawk Helicopter Potomac River. All are considered dead.
The Federal Aviation Administration told CNN that Layerjet 55 crashed after leaving for Springfield-Branson National Airport from North-East Philadelphia Airport.
Flight operator Jet Rescue Air Ambulance spokesman Shai Gold said that after the child’s treatment in Philadelphia, a pediatric patient and her mother returned home after returning home to Mexico, returning her mother home to Mexico. City officials said on Saturday that the girl was being treated for a disease at the Shriners Children Hospital in North -East Philadelphia.
Four crew members-one pilot, co-pilot, paramedic and doctors-were riding on a flight, which was determined to stop to fuel at the Springfield Airport, before it was Tijuana, Mexico’s own Before continuing the final destination, Gold told CNN.
According to Jennifer Homendi, Chairman of the National Transport Safety Board, the investigators were still searching for Jet’s Cockpit Voice Records on Saturday as they were working to gather evidence and work together.
“This may be intact, but the possibility … it is damaged, it may be fragmented,” Homendi said at a news conference on Saturday.
Homendi said, “Our headquarters has an incredible team, our research and engineering offices, which have significant expertise on the repair of damaged cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders,” Homendi said.
As part of the evidence collecting process, the board is also collecting debris from the accident site and is located on two engines of the aircraft. Homendi asked the community members who find the debris to reach NTSB.
The area of effect from the accident is about four to six blocks, and the authorities have discovered debris around the city, Philadelphia managing director Adam Theal said at a news conference on Saturday. “This is a very broad area and we are still trying to determine the entire scope.”
“It is completely possible that the figures of those casualties will change,” Theal said. “This will probably be the day or more until we are certainly not able to answer the question about the number of people killed in this tragedy.”
Philadelphia Mayor Cherael Parker urged the residents who may be in the property for possible evidence to check their vehicles and property during the explosion.
“Don’t touch it, just call 911,” he said.
According to data from the ADS-B exchange, the aircraft took off at 1,650 feet at 6 pm only after ET and a dip. Data shows that the last speed of the lineage was 11,000 feet per minute.
NTSB investigator Ralph Hix said on Saturday, “The entire flight lasted less than a minute,” NTSB Investigator Ralph Hix said on Saturday.
Trys to contact the aircraft as an air traffic controller, a callout, listened to Liveatc.net, “Medwack Made Service, Northeast Tower. Medwack Made Service, Northeast Tower. Are you on frequency? ,
A minute later, the controller is heard saying: “We have a lost aircraft.”
City officials said the medical transport plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, in which five houses and several vehicles were surrounded in flames and the area was covered with debris.
More than 150 firefighters reached the spot after three alarms were quickly closed. CNN affiliated WPVI videos shown a large cloud of flames and a large cloud of smoke in the neighborhood as several fire trucks responded to the accident.
A spokesperson said that after the accident, Jefferson Health received 15 victims. Twelve has been discharged since then, two have been admitted for further care and one patient was transferred to another hospital.
Six patients were sent to Temple University Hospital-Jeles Campus and all were released by Saturday afternoon, confirming CNN by a hospital spokesperson. The spokesman said that a patient was in a “proper position” in the main premises of the hospital.
A spokesperson told CNN that St. Christopher Hospital for children in Philadelphia received a pediatric patient from Friday’s accident.
Nearby, the Northeast Philadelphia Airport was temporarily closed after the accident, but now opened again, the airport told CNN.
Across the road, the Roosevelt Mall was evacuated by the accident, Mall spokesperson Kristen Moore told CNN. There was no injury or damage in the mall, he said.
Pennsylvania village. Josh Shapiro said that he is offering all Commonwealth resources as an emergency response comes. Sen John Fetterman also wrote on social media that he was in touch with the Mayor of Philadelphia and was waiting for further information.
Sen Dave McCormic Said He is closely monitoring the tragic situation, “he has reached the mayor and local law enforcement to lend” full support “.
The state’s emergency management agency and the members of the Transport Department are on the ground with 45 state soldiers, Shapiro told reporters on Friday night. The state environmental protection department is also ensuring that dangerous materials “are addressed,” said Shapiro.
According to the US Transport Department Secretary Sean Dafi, FAA and NTSB investigators are on the spot.
Former NTSB managing director Peter Goelz told CNN on Saturday, “The effect was very disastrous, I think they are going to fulfill their hands.”
While some videos of the incident are available, none of it is especially clear, Goelz said.
“The only tip-off may be if some came out of the aircraft before and a little ahead of the flight track,” Goelz said. “It can help indicate what happened, because the first piece is the most important.”
President Donald Trump has been informed on the accident, Dafi said Post on X,
Trump said, “Sad to the aircraft to go down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” Trump said A true social post“More innocent souls were lost. Our people are fully engaged. The first respondents are already credited with doing a great work. ,
A witness who saw the accident was at work when he saw that “this big ball of flames in the sky,” he told CNN affiliated WPVI,
“I was here on the job and I could see that this is a big ball of flames in the sky. Really, we heard a loud, loud explosion. It shook the entire building, the entire building shaken, ”Mickey Littlezon told WPVI.
Another witness, Vadim Osipov said: “I was in shock. I am still in shock. Like, it is crazy. ,
Osipov said that the incident reminded him of war in Ukraine, from where he is. “There is always a rocket coming and this way, then I see things flying.”
Filadelphia city commissioner Lisa Dele said that there were “no words” to describe troubled videos and images coming out of her neighborhood.
Dele said, “A tragic aircraft accident occurred half a mile from the house, where I grew up, lived for more than 50 years, and where I am still an active member of the community,” Dele said. statement Saturday afternoon. “A office building where I worked for 10 years, seems to have been damaged. I saw the debris in the mall parking, where I was hanging out as a teenager. I can say that you watch these things on TV, but it is completely different when it is in your own backyard. ,
The village. Shapiro said that Friday’s incident was “a terrible aviation disaster”, it reflects the integrated response of local, state and federal officials.
“We saw the neighbor helping the neighbor,” he said. “We know that there will be damage in this field and we want to offer our thoughts and our serious prayers to those who are unhappy.”
Red Cross Philadelphia Said A team of disaster workers is on the spot to help those who have been displaced. Mayor Parker said the shelter is available to the residents who have been affected.
This story has been updated with additional information.
