Small aircraft crashes in neighbourhood

A small plane crashed with six on board many buildings in the northeastern Philadelphia, putting homes and burning vehicles, and injuring people on the ground.

Reuters and other American media said that the plane was on a medical transport mission on Friday evening and was carrying four crew members, a child’s patient and accompanying the patient, Air Air Jet, the medical company, to Reuters and other American media.

“We know that there will be a loss,” Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, said at a press conference at the scene of the accident.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene of the accident during the evening peak hour, as the residents were flourishing in the streets that were scattered with fiery debris and cutting the plane. Many have described a chaotic scene with the injured people and a live mass over the fire.

The mayor of Philadelphia Sherrill Parker said that city officials do not know the number of deaths, but the city “requires the prayers of anyone and everyone who may be affected.”

“If you see the debris, call the number 911, do not touch anything,” she told residents of the city.

The accident occurred in buildings from the Roosevelt Mall center, a three -storey shopping center in a thick part of Pennsylvania.

The area where the accident occurred is filled with housing stands and shops.

The annoying videos of the online accident show that the plane quickly and ignites a huge fireworks ascended to the sky.

Witnesses describe shrapnel from the devastating car accident, and they move the burning debris in the streets. Pictures of the effects of the accident showing burning cars and mutilation in the streets, as more fires ignite on the sidewalk.

The plane, A Learjet 55, took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport at approximately 18:30 local time and crashed less than four miles (6.4 km), according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the flight was traveling at Springfield Branson National Airport in Missouri. Initially, the agency said that two people were on board, but then they reviewed this to six.

According to the data on Flightaware, the flight tracking site, the plane was operated by a company called Med Jets, and arrived in Philadelphia from Florida less than four hours ago.

Investigation of the Board of Directors of the FAA and National Saferty (NTSB).

In a statement, President Donald Trump said his administration was “completely involved.”

“It is very sad to see the plane declining in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It lost the most innocent souls,” he said.

Weather forecasts in the area show that they were a cloudy and rainy evening with winds measuring 10 to 20 miles per hour.

One of the witnesses told the local media that the explosion “ignited the entire sky.”

“I saw a plane hitting the building and essentially exploded. The sky lit up and withdrew mainly, it was very bad here,” the witness WPVI-TV saidThe accident was described as feeling like an earthquake.

Ryan Tian, ​​23, told, Philadelphia Ankaire He said he was having dinner when he saw a “huge firework” that turned the orange sky.

“I thought we were attacked by something,” he said. When he saw people start fleeing, he decided to get “outta there”.

The crash comes only two days after a A much larger collision occurred between a commercial plane and a military helicopter in Washington, DCAs officials suspect that all 67 people are killed on the plane.

It was a bloody plane in the United States for more than 20 years.