Small aircraft crashes in neighbourhood
On Friday night, a small aircraft crashed in several houses in northeast Philadelphia.
Officials said that two people were reported on the plane and reported that others were injured.
Fire officials in Philadelphia said that there were many houses on fire after the crash and explosion. The emergency personnel responded to the scene.
It is unclear the reason for the collision accident, who is on the plane or whether there are survivors.
According to CBS news reports from BBC (BBC), the crash occurs at Roosevelt Mall, a three -story shopping mall, which is part of Pennsylvania.
The area where the crash occurs is full of terraces shells and shops.
The online video of the incident showed that the plane landed quickly, and huge fireballs flocked to the sky.
According to data from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the aircraft is a 55 -year -old Learjet 55, which takes off from the Northeast Airport of Philadelphia at 18:30 local time, with a crash of less than 4 miles (6.4 kilometers).
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the flight was on the way to the State’s Spelingfield-Bransen National Airport.
The FAA and the National Transport Safety Commission (NTSB) is investigating.
The weather forecast in the area shows that this is a cloudy and rainy night, and the size of the wind is about 10 to 20 mph.
A witness told the local media that the explosion “illuminated the entire sky.”
“I just saw a plane that basically hit the building. Tell wpvi-tvDescribing crash is a kind of earthquake.
Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, wrote on X that he kept in touch with local authorities and “provided all British Federal Resources in response to small private planes.”
A few days later A greater collision occurred between the commercial aircraft in Washington and a military helicopterOfficials suspected that 67 people on the two planes were killed.