A small plane crashed this Friday afternoon in a residential area of Philadelphia, causing an explosion and at least six dead, said Fox News chain.
The ABC6 channel, which reports in turn “several dead,” said the plane crashed near an avenue crossing in the northeast of the largest city of Pennsylvania and that it may have fallen against several buildings and vehicles.
According to CBS News, which quotes police sources, two people were aboard the plane, there are injuries on land and several houses burned in the area, to which the emergency teams have come.
The governor of Pennsylvania, the Democrat Josh Shapiro, offered in a message in X the State’s resources in the response “to the accident of a small private plane” and said to be in contact with local authorities.
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told the media that the plane, model Learjet 55, crashed around 18.30 local time (17:30 Central Time of Mexico) after taking off from the northeastern airport of Philadelphia destined in Springfield (Misuri).
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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 vicinity of a local shopping center called Roosevelt.
Nor have details about the victims been completed.
The Philadelphia Fire Department issued several alerts on a fire that requires all possible resources and indicated that it will only publish data in your account as they are available.
The city’s emergency management office also reported a “great incident” near the Roosevelt shopping center that has forced traffic to cut, and published a photo in which a smoke is seen.
The incident occurs after Wednesday a military helicopter collided with a commercial plane near the Reagan National Airport in Washington, causing the death of the 67 people who were aboard both devices.
With EFE information
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