Small aircraft is blocked in the neighborhood

A small plane with six on board has crashed into several buildings in the northeast of Philadelphia, burning houses and vehicles and hurting people on the floor.

The plane was in a medical transport mission on Friday night and took four crew members, Reuters and other US media, a patient and the patient, reuters and other US media.

“We know that there will be a loss,” said the Government of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro during a press conference on the stage of the accident, qualifying him as a “horrible aviation disaster.”

The emergency teams rushed to the scene during the peak time of the afternoon, while the residents crowded in the streets that were full of burning debris and aircraft pieces. Many described a chaotic scene with wounded people and a flame neighborhood block.

The mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker, said that city officials do not know the number of deaths, but the city is “asking for sentences for anyone and all those who may have been affected.”

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

The accident occurred only blocks from the Roosevelt Shopping Center, a three -story shopping center in a densely populated part of the city of Pennsylvania.

The area where the accident occurred is full of housing and stores on terraces.

The disturbing videos of the online incident show the plane that falls quickly and caused a large fireball that shot in the sky.

Witnesses describe the shrapnel of the cars that damage the clash and the burning debris extended in the streets. PHOTOS OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SHOW INCIDENT The burned and destroyed cars in the streets as more fires on the sidewalk caught fire.

The plane, a Learjet 55, took off from the Northeast of Philadelphia airport at a local time of 18:30 and crashed less than four miles (6.4 km) away, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The FAA said in a statement that the flight was on the route to the Springfield-Benson National Airport in Missouri. At first, the agency said two people were on the plane, but then reviewed six.

According to Data On FlightAware, a flight monitoring website, the plane was operated by a company called Med Jets, and had reached Philadelphia from Florida less than four hours before.

The FAA and the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB) are investigating.

In a statement, President Donald Trump said his administration was “totally compromised.”

“Very sad to see the plane fall into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The most innocent souls lost,” he said.

The time forecasts in the area show that it has been a cloudy and rainy night with winds measured around 10 to 20 mph.

A witness told local media that the explosion “illuminated the entire sky.”

“I just saw a plane basically hitting the building and exploded. Heaven lit up and stopped and basically, it was very bad here,” the witness He told WPVI-TVdescribing the clash how to feel like an earthquake.

Ryan Tian, ​​23, told him The philadelphia inquiring He said he was having dinner when he saw a “mass fire ball” that turned the orange sky.

“I thought we were being attacked by something,” he said. When he saw people start fleeing, he decided to get out of there. “

The plane crash arrives only two days after a There was a much larger collision between a commercial stream and a military helicopter in Washington DCwhere officials suspect that the 67 people aboard both planes were killed.

It was the most deadly plane crash in the United States in more than 20 years.