Small planes go down the neighborhood

A small aircraft with six aboard has crashed into several buildings in northeastern Philadelphia that sets home and vehicles on fire and wounded people on the ground.

Jet was on a medical transport mission on Friday night and wore four crew members, a child patient and the patient’s escort, Jet Rescue Air ambulance, the medical airline, Reuters and other US media told.

“We know there will be losses,” said Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro during a news conference at the scene of the accident and called it a “terrible aviation disaster.”

Emergency staff rushed to the stage during the evening rush hour as the residents crowded streets filled with fire of dirt and pieces of the plane. Many described a chaotic scene with wounded people who ran and a neighborhood block on fire.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said the city’s officials do not know the number of fatalities, but the city “asks for prayers for anyone and anyone who may have been affected”.

“If you see garbage, call 911, don’t touch anything,” she told the city’s residents.

The accident just happened blocks from Roosevelt Mall, a three-story shopping center in a densely populated part of Pennsylvania City.

The area where the crash occurred is filled with terraced homes and shops.

Disruptive videos of the incident online show the plane that comes down quickly and triggered a huge fireball that rocked into the sky.

Witnesses describe grenade from the crashes that damaged cars and stretch burning garbage on the streets. Photos of the demand for the incident shows that cars burned and lacked on the streets as several fires are burned on the sidewalk.

The plane, a Learjet 55, started from the northeastern Philadelphia Airport around 18:30 local time and crashed less than four miles (6.4 km) away, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Few said in a statement that the flight was on its way to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri. First, the agency said two people were in the plane, but later revised to six.

According to data on flightaware, a flight tracking site, the aircraft was run by a company called with Jets, and had arrived in Philadelphia from Florida less than four hours earlier.

FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigates.

In a statement, President Donald Trump said his administration was “completely engaged”.

“So sad to see the plane go down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Several innocent souls lost,” he said.

Weather forecasts in the area show that it has been a cloudy and rainy evening with wind measured about 10 to 20 km / h.

A witness told local media that the explosion “turned on the whole heaven”.

“I just saw a plane basically hit the building and it exploded. Heaven lit up and I pulled over, and basically it was just really bad here, ‘the witness told WPVI-TVthat describes the crash as feeling like an earthquake.

Ryan Tian, ​​23, told The Philadelphia study Said he had dinner when he saw a “massive fireball” that turned the sky orange.

“I thought we were attacked by something,” he said. When he saw people starting to flee, he decided to get “outta there”.

The aircraft accident comes only two days after one Much larger collision happened between a commercial jet and a military helicopter in Washington DCWhere officials suspect all 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed.

It was the deadliest plane crash in the United States over 20 years.