The mayor of Philadelphia (United States), Cherelle Parker, He said Friday that several homes and vehicles were affected after a small plane with six people on board crashed into a residential area of the city.
“For now, we have no reports on the number of fatalities”Said Parker in a press conference.
However, the Fox News chain indicates that there are at least six dead, while the ABC6 channel says there are “several dead.”
According to CNN, which cites the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and police sources, six people were aboard the plane and one of them was a minor.
Local media also point out that there are injured on land and several burning houses in the area, which the emergency teams have attended.
A FAA spokesman told the media that the plane Model Learjet 55, crashed around 18:30 local time (23:30 GMT) after taking off from the Northeast of Philadelphia to Springfield (Missuri).
The plane had Mexican registration, according to local media
The plane with Mexican registration, according to the CNN y flight radar, crashed after 40 seconds in the air near a crossing avenues in the northeast of the largest city of Pennsylvania.
According to videos shared by witnesses on social networks and media, at the time of the incident, in an area of houses, there was an explosion, after which fire and a mass of smoke are observed.
The causes of what happened are still unknown, which took place near Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue avenues, in the immediate vicinity of a shopping center called Roosevelt.
The incident occurs after Wednesday a military helicopter collided with a commercial plane near the Reagan National Airport of Washington, causing the death of the 67 people who were aboard both devices.
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