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6 victims of an identified air ambulance in Philadelphia

6 victims of an identified air ambulance in Philadelphia

Philadelphia – seven people, including a person in the car, died when Air ambulance carrying six crashed on Friday evening near the shopping center in north -eastern Philadelphia.

Six people on the plane were identified as Capt. Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, second place Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, dr Raul Meza Arredondo, parameder Rodrigo Lopez Padilla, patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna.

Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said it was unlikely that anyone survived.

The mayor of Cherielle Parker said on Monday information that the number of victims of victims on Earth, in which several apartments and vehicles were affected, increased to 24.

Parker said that four of them remain hospitalized, two in critical condition. No additional information about their injuries has been provided.

“We do not respect their families and their loved ones, we shared the names of each of those who were affected,” said Parker on Sunday.

Governor Josh Shapiro devoted a moment on Monday to praise the community for the meeting after the accident. He told a man in a green sweatshirt, who ran towards the accident, wanting to help the wounded.

“I am grateful to our first granting to respondents and law enforcement agencies for making their part to save lives,” said Shapiro. “I am grateful to our neighbors here in the north -eastern Philly for doing their part to save their lives, and I am particularly grateful to the mayor of Parker for her extraordinary leadership here in the city of Philadelphia.”

The air ambulance traveled from the north-east airport in Philadelphia to the domestic Springfield-Branson airport in Missouri, when it crashed near the Roosevelt shopping center around 18:30

Land Land Learjet

The national chairwoman of the Council for Transport Security Jennifer Homenda said at a press conference on Saturday evening that the disaster is classified as an accident.

Ralph Hicks, senior investigator for aviation safety for NTSB and investigator responsible for the investigation, said on Saturday evening that Learjet 55 left Florida around 12 in the afternoon and came at the airport in the north -eastern Philadelphia around 14:15. He said a few hours before leaving around 18:06.

Hicks said that after the start, the jet climbed about 1500 feet. He made slightly turn right, slightly turn left, and then a “steep descent” to the place where it finally crashed.

Homenda said that tracking the flight is not suggesting anything now and that NTSB would continue to evaluate all available information.

She said that the air deck did not transfer anything to the air traffic control tower before the disaster.

Federal Aviation Administration is also investigating.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico said on x that all travelers were Mexican citizens. The Mexican consulate said that officials contacted the families of all six people.

“The necessary consular assistance is provided and cooperates with the authorities to clarify what happened,” said the consulate in translated Publish on Facebook.

Said a spokesman for an ambulance company NBC Philadelphia that the patient was from Mexico and came to the United States for “life -saving treatment” and returned home. The ultimate goal was the Tijuan international airport, in which the ground ambulance was to take the child home, said the spokesman.

Cockpit voice recorder found

Officials said that the area of ​​influence “is about four to six blocks” and that debris was found in distant areas.

Homenda said that NTSB is focusing on gathering disturbing evidence, including pollutants from the stage and everything else that he may need to examine.

On Sunday, the management said that the voice recorder of the aircraft cockpit was found with a depth of 8 feet at the place of impact. He has been characterized as key evidence for investigators who could help determine possible unknowns in an accident and help in determining the schedule.

“It is probably damaged,” he said on Saturday, before finding a device. “It can be crushed.”

NTSB also said that an improved warning system to the closeness of ground closeness, which may contain certain flight data, said NTSB.

Both components will be sent to the NTSB Vehicle Revorders laboratory in Washington for evaluation. NTSB officials have found that the agency’s ability to separate information from such devices, despite damage to accidents, is unmatched.

Investigators NTSB also recovered both engines and will continue to work on the spot where it was expected that the recovery of wrecks would be continued on Monday. The recovered wreck will be examined in a safe place in Delaware, he said.

NTSB is not aware of debris or anything else falling from the plane before he fell, “said Homenda. She said she was greeted by witness films.

29 -year -old Odalis Acosta said that she helps the client in Four Seasons Diner when “everything was shaking”.

She said that people in the restaurant fell to the ground when the glass around them crashed. A heavy piece of metal hit the client’s head.

“You heard an explosion. I look aside and see the Big Ball of the Explosion out the window, “said NBC News.

The film showed fire and heavy smoke wavy in the air.

The plane crashed just a few days later 67 people were killed when the American Airlines passenger aircraft collided in the air with the Black Hawk helicopter Near Washington, DC

Transport secretary Sean Duffy noticed that the voice recorder can provide information about what happened at the time before the disaster.

“We hope that we will receive a preliminary report within 30 days and we have committed to be as transparent as it is possible with information when it appears,” said Duffy at a press conference on Monday.

Duffy praised the work of officials and the first respondents from Philadelphia, in addition to investigators NTSB and FAA. He swore to continue working with the city and the state even after “moving the information cycle”.

“We won’t forget,” said Duffy. We will work with your community and this wonderful team that you all built, I had the opportunity to meet, and they are simply extraordinary Americans, and meeting with them was a pleasure.

Maya Eaglin informed from Philadelphia and Minyvonne Burke from Pittsburgh.

This article was originally published on Today.com