
While the sun rises on Saturday morning, the consequences of destruction are observed outside the Roosevelt Mall after a small plane crashed in Philadelphia on Friday evening.
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The federal and local authorities investigate the accident of a small plane near a shopping center in northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, which killed the six people aboard the plane and a person on the ground.
A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, the child’s mother, two members of medical staff and two pilots – all Mexican nationals – crushed around 6.30 p.m., shortly after taking off from northern airport -St of Philadelphia. The plane was on the way to Missouri, Sean Duffy, transport secretary, said on Friday.
During a press conference on Saturday, the mayor of Philadelphia, Cherrelle Parker, confirmed that a person on the ground had been killed in the accident. The person was inside a car at the time. Parker added that at least 19 people had been injured, although she did not say how much were in critical condition.
But the number of victims in the accident can change in the coming days, according to the City Director of the City, Adam Thiel.
“It is always a very active and fluid situation,” said Thiel at the press conference. “It will probably be days or more until we can definitively answer the question of the number of people who have perished in this tragedy and the result for those injured.”

The accident took place near the Roosevelt shopping center, less than four kilometers from the northeast airport in Philadelphia. City officials said the plane was only in the air for a minute before falling on the ground.
Eye witnesses have described having seen an explosion in the form of a fungi cloud, Whyy reported. While the videos and photos of the consequences have shown a long expanse of a district of Philadelphia in flames and covered with debris. Five fires broke out after the accident and have since been turned off, said Philadelphia fire commissioner Jeffrey Thompson on Saturday.

Burned and damaged cars are seen on the scene after a small plane crashed in a residential area of ​​Philadelphia on January 31.
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Thiel said the impact area was about four to six blocks, but the debris was widespread and that the authorities still assess the affected areas.
“It is possible that if you are not even near here, somewhere between this place and the northeast airport, you can go out and find something in your yard,” he said .
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will conduct the investigation.
What we know about the victims of the plane
The six people aboard the plane were Mexican nationals, confirmed the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, in a statement.
The patient child had finished treatment for a disease at the Children’s Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and returned to her country of origin, according to the hospital.
The six people were flying in a Learjet 55, operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, specializing in air ambulances across Mexico, Latin America and the United States
Shai Gold, Jet Rescue spokesperson, told NPR that the company had been contracted by a third-party charitable organization to bring the child back home to Tijuana, Mexico.
Among the people on board were a pilot, a co -pilot, a doctor and a paramedical paramedic, added. No names are released until all families have been informed, said the company.

Friday evening, President Trump also expressed condolences to the victims of the accident.
“So sad to see the plane fall to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More innocent souls lost. Our people are completely committed. On social truth.
The accident occurred only two days after 67 people were killed in an outdoor collision between American Airlines Jet and an army helicopter near Washington, DC, this crash is considered the catastrophe of the American aviation The deadliest in more than two decades.