Everything that is known about the accident of the private plane in Philadelphia: who was on board, number of wounded and testimonies of an air controller

This past Friday, January 31, A private plane crashed in the streets of Philadelphiaone of the main cities of Pennsylvania. This plane crash is the second that occurs in the United States in just four days, because last Wednesday a commercial plane cooked against a military helicopter when landing, leaving 67 dead and becoming the worst plane accident in decades.

In the case of the accident in Philadelphia, the tragedy has also been manifested when knowing that there are at least six fatalities. The private plane crashed in a populated area of ​​northwest Philadelphia, specifically near the Roosevelt shopping center, which is located next to the intersection of Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard, according to Javier Ansorena, ABC correspondent in New York.

This location is full of restaurants, stores and large surfaces and, the local time to which it occurred, six in the afternoon, is one in which there is usually great transfer of people in the area, which leads to think that there may be several injured on land because of the ship’s accident. Next we tell you what is known about this incident, its causes, consequences, who were the victims and the latest news about it.

Who were the people who were in the private plane that crashed in Philadelphia?

The worst of the news was confirmed by a statement from the mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker, indicating that the six people who were aboard the plane that crashed have died. As BBC collects, it is about A girl and her mother, a doctor, a paramedic, a pilot and a co -pilot.

Through the social network X of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, it has been known that the six victims were of Mexican nationality. The child had just received medical care in the United States told AFP the children’s hospital where it was treated: «The patient had received medical attention from Shriners Children’s of Philadelphia and was being transported back to her country of origin, Mexicoin an air ambulance hired when the accident occurred ».

Thus, response to Type of plane from which it wasa Learjet 55, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a small medicalized plane with capacity for 10 people. Despite being large, the aircraft clash caused a huge explosion with a large fireball As the ABC correspondent points out in New York, Javier Ansorena, probably due to the presence of a lot of fuel in the ship, which began its flight to the Springfield-Benson airport, in the state of Missuri.

Besides, A person who did not travel on the plane and who was on the ground has diedin the area of ​​the catastrophe, in a car.

Testimonies of air controllers and witnesses

According to several videos that captured the time of the accident, the plane was falling very quickly and apparently out of control. According to the BBC, the witnesses described that The shrapnel damaged the cars and spread debris in flames through the streets. The photos of the posterior moment show cars in flames and destroyed. Several people who were close to the place at the time of the incident describe that “Heaven lit up” and “everyone started screaming.”

On the part of the Mayor’s Office, they pointed out that the plane remained in the air just one minute after it took off as the flight records showed. In addition, CBS News, a media partner of the BBC in the United States, has published Air traffic control audiowhere the following is heard:

«We have a lost plane. We are not exactly sure of what happened, so we are trying to solve it. For now the field will be closed », to which another person replied:«It seems that there could be an accident near the Northeast Philly airport. They are closing the airport indefinitely ».

Damage and injured by the plane crash

The Philadelphia Emergency Management Office indicated that some road closures were still in force and “can be prolonged,” in addition to A shelter has opened at Samuel Fels high school for those affected by the accident, According to local media.

From BBC they showed that, already in the light of dawn, several streets are full of rubblewhich also extended on the roofs of some buildings. In addition to this, several cars were burned and abandoned, while the police and firefighters attended the incidents derived from the accident.

The British media also reported that, in addition to the six passengers who were in the plane and died in the accident, there are five other injured people who were around the affected area. According to a spokesman for the Jean Campus of the Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, they treated these six people. Three of the injured were already discharged, but at the moment the state of the rest is not known. The mayor of the city added that “many people on the field” were injured as a result of the tragedy and asked citizens to see debris did not touch anything “call 911.”