A small aircraft carrying 6 passengers, including a child, crashed in Philadelphia, the United States of America, on Friday night (January 31).
The crash caused an explosion to the aircraft and set several homes ablaze, reported ABC News.
Philadelphia police confirmed that the plane crashed into a neighborhood near the Roosevelt Mall just moments after leaving the airstrip at approximately 6:07 pm.
The first emergency calls went out about five minutes later, at 6:12 pm. The crash occurred in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue.
The medical transport plane, a Learjet 55, had just departed Northeast Philadelphia Airport bound for Springfield, Missouri, when it went down.
According to a statement from Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the six included four crew members, a pediatric patient, and the patient’s escort. The pediatric patient was a girl from Mexico who had received treatment at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia.
During the crash, the girl was on her way home as she had finished her treatment.
A few days back, an American Airlines flight crashed mid-air after colliding with a US military Black Hawk, with no survivors.
At the time of this writing, the company operating the flight said it wasn’t able to confirm whether anyone survived the crash.
