The authorities were still looking for corpses on the Potomac River after Washington’s huge air tragedy when another plane crashed Thursday night in another large US city, Philadelphia. A private medical plane lost control shortly after … to take off from a secondary airport in the northeast of the city of Pennsylvania, just over two hours from the capital of the country. It was launched at full speed against a commercial and residential area of the northeast of Philadelphia, the Roosevelt Mall, near the intersection between the avenues.
They were past six in the afternoon (midnight in Spain) and is a very frequented area. The impact of the ship caused a great explosion. Several homes, businesses and vehicles were affected.
The six people who went on the plane died. Among them is a Mexican girl, who had been treated at the Shrner Children’s Hospital, in Philadelphia. Next to her traveled her mother, a doctor, a paramedic, a pilot and a co -pilot. All of them were of Mexican nationality, as confirmed by the president of the country, Claudia Sheinbaum. “My solidarity with their loved ones and friends,” he said in a message on the social network X.
In addition, there is one Seventh mortal victima person who did not travel on the aircraft (he was on the ground, in a car) and who was injured in the accident.
He was the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, the first to inform in a message on the social network X that there were six people on the plane. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) explained that the plane is a Learjet 55, which took off from the Northeast Airport of Philadelphia, An aerodrome used mainly by private airplanes and jets. Duffy added that the FAA and the National Transportation Council will investigate what happened, as they are also doing with Washington’s tragedy, in which 67 people died.
“It is very sad to have seen that plane fall into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” reacted the president of the country, Donald Trump, in a message on his social network. “More innocent lives lost,” Trump added, whose administration has to deal with two aerial tragedies in less than 48 hours, one in the capital of the country and the other in the city that, in addition to its first capital, is the cradle of the cradle of country.
The plane crashed shortly after taking off. According to some estimates, only It was just over forty seconds in the air after takeoff. Its destination was the Springfield-Benson airport, in the state of Misuri, 1,750 kilometers from there. The amount of fuel he carried in his deposit explains the enormous deflagration that was recorded in the accident, which caused fires in some of the affected buildings and vehicles.
Fortunately, so far no fatal victims of the neighbors who were in the impact area have been known. Yes there were six injured, of which three were discharged on Friday night and the other three were in a stable situation.
“I thought we were being attacked,” said Ryan Tian, a witness of the accident, to ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer’. Tian, who was asking for his dinner in a meal truck said that “heaven was dyed orange” and that he saw “a huge fire ball.”
The military helicopter was alerted twice
In Washington the investigation of the accident continues in which a military helicopter crashed into an American Airlines commercial flight when the latter made his landing. It is known that The helicopter flew at an improper height and that the air controller was doing at that time a work that corresponded to two people.
On Friday night the black boxes of the plane were recovered, which ended, like the ship and its occupants, on the Potomac River. Beyond the information that can be obtained from them, it has been known that the control tower twice alerted the three helicopter crew of the presence of the American Airlines plane in its landing.
According to the review of the radio broadcasts made by ‘The Washington Post’, the first of those notices arrived two minutes before the accident, which occurred at 8.48 on Wednesday night (2.48 on Thursday morning in Spain). In both cases a helicopter crew responded to the notices and requested “visual separation”, which implies that it would maintain a safety distance with the incoming plane. The second notice of the control tower occurred twelve seconds before the impact.
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