A medical transport plane carrying a young child, her mother, and four crew members crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The crash resulted in a fireball that set several homes and cars ablaze.
A medical transport plane carrying a pediatric patient, her mother, and four crew members crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood Friday night, erupting into a fireball and engulfing nearby homes and cars in flames. The medical transport company says they have no reports of any survivors. Philadelphia officials on the ground have yet to confirm any fatalities to passengers or bystanders who were on the ground.
Whether or not weather conditions played a role remains to be seen. FOX 29's Drew Anderson says ice would most likely not have been a factor due to the plane's altitude at the time of the crash.When the plane took off, the pilots did have to deal with some rain and may have experienced some white-out conditions from low cloud coverage.President Donald Trump released a statement on Truth Social, stating "innocent lives lost.
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