New York, Mexico City (EFE) .- The six people- four crew members and two passengers- traveling in an aircraft that crashed in the city of Philadelphia, the United States, were of Mexican nationality, including a minor, a minor, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE, Foreign Ministry) of Mexico reported Friday.
“The air company responsible for the transfer of passengers of the injured plane in Philadelphia, United States, confirmed to the Mexico Consulate in Philadelphia that six people of Mexican nationality were traveling in the aircraft,” the SRE said in a statement.
He added that personnel of the aforementioned diplomatic headquarters “are in contact with relatives and will provide all the accompaniment and consular assistance required”, and will be pending in case there are more nationals affected in the vicinity of the accident.
The explosion
A small plane crashed this Friday afternoon in a residential area of Philadelphia (United States), causing an explosion and at least six dead, said Fox News chain.
The ABC6 channel pointed out that the plane crashed near a crossing of avenues in the northeast of the largest city of Pennsylvania and that it may have fallen against several buildings and vehicles.
The governor of Pennsylvania (USA), Josh Shapiro, described the accident in Philadelphia as “a terrible aviation disaster.”
“What we are seeing here is a unified response to a terrible aviation disaster,” said the governor at a press conference.
Accident of a private plane in Philadelphia
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 the local authorities.
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told the media that the plane, Learjet 55 model, crashed around 18:30 local time (23:30 GMT) after taking off from the northeastern airport of Philadelphia to destination In Springfield (Missuri).
According to videos shared by witnesses on social networks and in the 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 Air Ambulance Company, Jet Rescue, is based in the city of New Mexico and works both in Mexico and in the United States, according to CNN.
The aircraft with Mexican registration, according to the CNN and Flight Radar, crashed after 40 seconds in the air near an avenue crossing in the northeast of the largest city of Pennsylvania.
The mayor of Philadelphia (United States), Cherelle Parker, 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’s press conference.
The causes are evaluated
The causes of what happened are still unknown.
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.
Trump: It is “very sad to see a plane crash into Philadelphia”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said it is “very sad to see a plane crash into Philadelphia.
The president also regretted the loss of “innocent souls.” However, the mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker, said Friday that they still had no reports on the number of fatalities.
