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Philadelphia plane crash: Medical jet with six on board crashes

A spokesperson for Temple University Hospital-Jeanes in Philadelphia said they had treated six people who were injured on the ground during the crash, according to US media reports.

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Three of those people have been treated and released, while details are not yet known about the condition of the other three, the reports said.

Emergency crews rushed to the evening crash scene as residents crowded streets littered with fiery debris and pieces of the aircraft.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene with people who were injured and structures ablaze.

The child on board the plane was receiving care in the US for a life-threatening condition and was returning to Tijuana, Mexico, Shai Gold, a spokesman for Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, told a local NBC outlet, external.

The girl was accompanied by her mother, a pilot, a copilot, a doctor and a paramedic, the spokesman said.

Mr Gold told NBC the child’s treatment was sponsored by a third-partner charity.

“She fought quite a lot to survive, and unfortunately, this tragedy on the way home,” he said.

The Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia put out a notice on X for Mexican nationals affected by the incident to call a helpline.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said city officials do not know the number of fatalities, but the city is “asking for prayers for anyone and everyone that may have been affected”.

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

The crash happened just blocks from the Roosevelt Mall, a three-storey shopping center in a densely populated part of Philadelphia, the fifth biggest city in the US.

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

Videos of the incident online show the plane coming down quickly and sparking a huge fireball.

Witnesses described shrapnel from the crash damaging cars and sending burning debris into the streets. Photos of the aftermath show burning cars mangled.

One man who spoke with CBS, the BBC’s US partner, said he was driving in the area when he heard a whirring sound and then a loud explosion.

“Everyone just started screaming,” he said.

One witness told local media that the explosion “lit up the whole sky”.

“I just saw a plane basically hit the building and it exploded. The sky lit up and I pulled over and basically, it was just real bad around here,” the witness told WPVI-TV, external, describing the crash as feeling like an earthquake.

Ryan Tian, 23, told The Philadelphia Inquirer, external he was getting dinner when he saw a “massive fireball” that turned the sky orange. “I thought we were getting attacked by something,” he said.

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