A medical ambulance plane carrying a pediatric patient and her mother crashed and exploded near homes in Philadelphia, killing all six on board. The Learjet 55, operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, departed from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport before plummeting to the ground. Air traffic control audio revealed the desperate attempts to communicate with the aircraft before the crash. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but experts speculate it may have been a takeoff stall.
A medical ambulance plane carrying a pediatric patient and her mother crashed and exploded near homes in Philadelphia on Friday evening. The Learjet 55 , operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, departed from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport around 6:30 p.m. with four crew members and two passengers on board - a pilot, copilot, physician, paramedic and a Mexican national patient who was in the US for life-saving medical treatment and her mother.
Air traffic control audio obtained by Fox News Digital captures the frantic moments before the crash, with operators struggling to communicate with the aircraft. 'We have a lost aircraft. We're not exactly sure what happened. So, we're trying to figure it out,' replies one air traffic controller. 'The field is going to be closed so no inbounds-outbounds.' The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed there were six people on the plane. A retired pilot, John Anderson, speculated that the crash was likely caused by a takeoff stall. 'The plane was out of the crew's control. It was not controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). May have been a mechanical malfunction of the stabilizer, elevator, trim or even a load shift rearward within the cabin,' Anderson said. He further suggested that if 'it was a medical flight with a stretcher on board and the stretcher was not properly secured, it may have rolled rearward.' 'This would cause the nose to raise and stall the wing. In that case, the nose will drop with the angle in the video,' he explained. 'Because it was right after takeoff and the initial climb, I would say it was likely a wing stall. There could be a number of factors that would cause a stall. Could have been a runaway trim, malfunctioning stabilizer.' This tragedy comes just two days after a deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport that resulted in the deaths of 67 people.
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