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Philadelphia Plane Crash

1440 Daily Digest

At least seven people died and 22 others were injured when a midsize medical transport plane crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening. Officials categorized the incident as an accident. 


The Mexico-registered Learjet 55—chartered by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance—took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport shortly after 6 pm local time, set to return 11-year-old Valentina Guzman Murillo to Mexico after four months of care at Shriners Children’s Hospital in the city. The craft was unresponsive to air traffic control and descended steeply less than a minute after departure, immediately killing Murillo, her mother, four crew members, and a car driver and leaving a five-block debris field. Workers identified the plane's black box 8 feet deep within the impact crater late Sunday. See videos here (warning: sensitive content). 


The incident occurred two days after a passenger plane and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, claiming nearly 70 lives (see profiles).

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