Philadelphia Plane Crash: 7 People Dead, Including 1 on Ground – E! Online

UPDATE: Seven people have been confirmed dead in the medevac plane crash in Philadelphia, including one person who was on the ground.
“We can officially disclose 6 perished in the plane,” the city’s mayor, Cherelle L. Parker, said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, Feb. 1. “At least one more person perished in the incident.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on X that the six people on the plane were Mexican nationals.
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Another plane crash has tragically occurred on U.S. soil.
An air ambulance crashed down in Philadelphia around 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 soon after departing to head to the Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri, the operating company said in a statement to NBC News.
There were six passengers on board the Learjet 55, including a pediatric patient, her guardian and four crew members, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance confirmed to the outlet. The child onboard the flight was traveling back home to Mexico after getting a “life-saving treatment” in the United States, a spokesperson for the company told NBC10 Philadelphia.