Seven people were killed and at least 19 others wounded when a medical plane crashed into a busy Philadelphia street Friday evening.
The Learjet 55 went down just after leaving the Northeast Philadelphia Airport at around 6 p.m. for an unknown reason.
It was carrying a child who had just finished months-long treatment at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia hospital, her mother, and four crew members. All six of them perished in the crash.
A seventh fatality was confirmed Saturday after authorities located a deceased person in a car at the crash scene that stretched throughout four to six blocks of a densely populated, residential neighborhood.
National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy described a ‘high-impact crash” adding that the plane’s debris was “highly fragmented.”
The agency’s officials were sifting through the scene for the cockpit voice recorder which could offer an answer to what caused the tragedy.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said all six occupants of the doomed plane were Mexicans. Families identified two of them as Josué Juárez, the aircraft’s co-pilot, and Doctor Raúl Meza.
