2nd US Air Disaster in 2025: Philadelphia Medical Jet Crash Kills Six

2nd US Air Disaster in 2025 Philadelphia Medical Jet Crash Kills Six

A medical jet with six Mexican nationals onboard crashed into a busy Philadel-phia neighborhood Friday.

Authorities said that this is another US aviation disaster following an accident involving a passenger plane and a military helicopter midair in Washington earlier this week.

Video footage appeared to show the twin-engine plane descending at a sharp angle toward a residential area, sparking a huge fireball upon impact and showering wreckage over homes and vehicles. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the aircraft was a Learjet 55 — an American-French business jet — that had taken off shortly before from Northeast Philadelphia Airport bound for Branson, Missouri.

The crash happened just after 6 p.m. (2300 GMT). A young girl who had been in the United States for medical care, her mother, and members of the flight and medical crews accompanying her onboard were killed in the crash. The children's hospital that treated the child told AFP that all six of those onboard were Mexican citizens.

The patient had received care from Shriners Children's Philadelphia and was being transported back to her home country in Mexico on a contracted air ambulance when the crash happened, said Mel Bower, a spokesman for Shriners Children's.

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